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When pixel values cannoi be reproduced exactly. PostScript
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A500P
on its
way for UK
Commodore tell John Butters what
the Amiga's getting for Christmas
AT AN exclusive press briefing recently,
Commodore told Amiga Computing
that the A500 Professional will go on
sale in the UK early next year and gave
details of other plans for the Amiga
family.
The A500P, which has been available
in (he States for several months, is
based on the A500 but is fitted with
the enhanced chip set, one megabyte
of memory and runs the Workbench 2
operating system.
The enhanced chip set includes the
Super Agnes and Super Denise chips
which give the computer improved
sound and graphics, and Workbench 2
is an improved version of the operating
system with a more attractive appear-
ance and added features.
While Commodore have not fixed a
price or marketing plan for the
machine, experts believe the price will
stay at or close to the current £399.99.
The move casts doubt on whether
A500 owners will have an option to
upgrade their operating system to
Workbench 2 but as Amiga Computing
exclusively confirmed last month,
upgrades for other models in the family
will be available by the end of the year.
But even before ASOOPs arrive, standard
ASOOs are to have one megabyte of
memory.
The computer has always had halt a
megabyte of ram, and for several
months had a 51 2K upgrade included
in the box. The extra power will make
the A500 an attractive buy for most
home applications, such as wordpro-
cessing and accounts.
The new version, which could be
available before Christmas, will have
the additional memory already fitted to
the motherboard and Its price will
remain at £399.99.
It will feature in the Cartoon Classics
bundle, which will be at the centre of a
£3.5 million television advertising cam-
paign during Christmas
The A500 is the firm's best selling
version of the Amiga, with 675,000
units already in the UK and a forecast of
growth of a further 180,000 by the end
of this year.
With 1991 sales of 250,000, the
Amiga remains the best selling home
WHAT'S
On the ouMde the ASOOP looki identical to the AS00. but inilde tfwr'i a lull
mtgabytt of memory the enhanced chip tet and an Improved operating tyitem
computer in the country. The com-
puter's success has led to the firm
building a S9.1 million assembly plant
in the Philippines.
To be opened in February 1993, the
factory will be used for overspill pro-
duction from the company's existing
Hong Kong assembly line which turns
out "hundreds of thousands" of
machines each year.
Meanwhile, the firm's German plant
in Braunsweig will continue to manu-
facture computers higher in the Amiga
range.
Amiga makes
French music
MUSIC program Audio Sculpture is
the first Amiga package to come from
French company Expose Software.
It is described as being a powerful
music tool which enables users to cre-
ate music from the beginning to the
end. Tools include a high quality
soundtracker, a sampler which
includes a sample editing interface
and sound synthesis which allows
synthesiser type sounds to be gener-
ated.
A data disk is supplied which has
modules and samples and the pro-
gram a accompanied with an "easy
to understand" manual. It will be dis-
tributed in the UK lor £49.99 by the
Software Management Group who
can be contacted on 0274 566155.
First 040 for A3000
A5 the A2000 sees new 68040 accel-
erators nearly each month. Amiga
Computing has received details of the
first 68040 board for the A3000.
Denver-based Progressive
Peripheral* and Software have |ust
released the Progressive 040/3000
which plugs into the computer's pro-
cessor slot beneath the floppy disk
drive.
Using software supplied with the
A3000, users can switch between the
machine's original 68030 and the
040/3000. Under the increased
power, a 16MHz A3000 will run at
sin times its normal speed and a
2SMHz A3000 will be four times
faster.
The chip's performance is rated at
19.2 MIPS and il has a built in maths
co-processor The accelerator does
not have additional memory and
costs SI. 795.
Progressive are also (o send Video
Blender to the UK. A professional
video switching system for all ver-
sions of the Amiga, It provides video
switching, genlocklng, local back-
ground screen colour generation In
16 million colours and a variety of
video fades. A stereo sound mixer is
also Included.
Video Blender can mix and manip-
ulate composite video, NTSC RGB
and Amiga RGB video outputs, and
an internal colour generator pro-
duces up (o 16 million background
colours. The unit is also PAL compati-
ble.
Video Cameras and 24-bll frame-
buffers can be attached lo the set up
to give special video effects.
Multiple video inputs can be syn-
chronised without time-base correc-
tor hardware and stereo audio
channels can be synchronised with
video
It has full linear keying over 256
levels, so superimposed graphics can
be anti-aliased to just about any
degree the user wishes.
Controlled through the Amiga's
serial port, the compact unit enables
256 levels of red. green and blue
colours to be mixed.
An unlimited number of wipes
and other effects are available
through MixMaster software. UK
pricing for both on calling Marcam
(081-941 6117)
CDTV gets CES support
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USERS of graphics applications on
A2000s are being targeted tor a new
68040 accelerator card from California-
based Computer System Associates
(0101 619 566 3911).
The card, which makes the com-
puter run at three times the speed ol
the fastest 68030-based Amiga, enables
several "performance bottlenecks" to
be bypassed.
CSA describe the 40/4 Magnum as a
single board computer, rather than just
an accelerator, and it works by taking
as much processing work as possible
from the motherboard.
At 4.5in by 13.Bin, the board plugs
directly into the A2000's CPU slot and
uses a Motorola 68040 tunning at
25MHz.
It is supplied with one megabyte of
static ram and currently supports 4, 8,
12 or 16 megabytes of Dynamic ram.
sixty-four megabytes of Dram is
expected to be available by January,
when a number of manufacturers will
be releasing 16Mb, 32-bit SIMM mod-
ules.
-Installing an SBC like the 40/4
Magnum is like adding a second, more
powerful 1992-model engine, transmis-
sion and cargo trailer to your favourite
1985-model car," said CSA's Steve
Riker.
"Not only can you drive faster and
haul more luggage, you can still put in
the same kind of gas as before and still
COMMODORE used the recent trade
only Computer Entertainment Show to
demonstrate several new CDTV soft-
ware products but were quiet on any-
thing new for the Amiga.
Falcon is a compact disc version of
the Amiga shoot-'em-up flight simula-
tor which has you completing several
missions at the controls of an F-16
fighter. The most noticeable difference
is the sound, with includes an impres-
sive flight briefing with realistic speech.
Trivial Pursuit comes from Domark
and the main advantages of the CDTV
technology are seen in the questions,
with each having a digitised picture
relevant to the subject and sound.
The Guinness CD hold all records
lound in the book but by makrng the
most of the increased storage capacity
manages to add illustrations and sound
to the software.
The company were expected to
unveil their new CD-rom drive which
will enable A500s to use the CDTV's
compact discs but because EMAP
chose to make the show trade only,
had to re-think their strategy for the
different audience.
Experts believe that the A690 will
now be shown for the first time at the
World of Commodore Show to be held
in London on the 15-17 November
1991. Commodore's Andrew Ball
claims that between 35 and 65 per
cent of the existing A500 user base
wants the drive for "wild and wacky
— i. ,9nnoHrn coUtd Pro Monk TWfcu
from Ornamks. with their twin cor
games". Scores of new joysticks were
released at the show. New models
came from Power Play/Sonma*.
Cheetah and Spectravideo but the only
original design was from Dynamics.
Their Competition Pro Manix Twins
are two hand held controllers which
operate together. One controls direc-
tion using an eight-way switch while
the other has three fire buttons and
extra control keys for special functions
The entertainment show was also the
launching ground for education soft-
ware from AWac (0626 332233). Under
the banner Edutainment the firm will be
selling New Math Blaster Plus! and two
Algebra programs.
New Math Blaster Plusl is aimed at
children aged between 6 and 12 to
improve maths skills in six skill levels. It
covers addition, subtraction, multiplica-
tion, division, fractions, decimals and
percentages.
Both Algebra packages are for chil-
dren of more than 1 3 years old and
each have eight sessions teaching dif-
ferent elements of the subject. There
are tests and a glossary of 160 terms
and definitions. Each program costs
£39.95 each.
sit in the same familiar driver's seat -
you even get better mileage from your
old engine because the new engine has
taken over much of the work."
-By removing the Amiga's speed
bottlenecks the 40/4 Magnum makes
the Amiga and its software base a
viable alternative for video, graphics
and animation professionals."
40/4 Magnum runs at 20 MIPS and
costs £3,995.
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Multimedia
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COMMODORE have reinforced their
commitment to multimedia by open-
ing a new division at their
Maidenhead office aimed at promot-
ing the lop end Amigas in that field.
It will be headed by Terry Cooke,
who moves from the company's busi-
ness operation and will be staffed by
a team of 10 people across the coun-
try.
One of the division's responsibili-
ties will be to oversee the training for
dealers wishing to become multime-
dia centres.
Training has already started and
Commodore are expected to
announce the first 12 centres by the
end of November.
Spokesman Andrew Ball told
Amiga Computing that the centres
terry Coolie moves within Commodore
to become head ol the firm 'J new
Mtfltmeala MMM. ">* deportment
*IH promote top end Amlgai m the
gtvwing rmilltoedia market
were to prove "Commodore are at
the forefront of the market in educa-
tion, corporate, dealers and distribu-
tion".
A2000s and A3000s are soon to
have special multimedia software
bundled with them. Commodore say
they will be addressing the needs of
the market with the A2000 heading
for video use and the A3000 being
>old for corporate presentation.
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compression
THE AMIGA has received its First software package to use Joint Photographic Expert
Group (JPEG) image compression technology,
(PEC modules have now become a standard part of ASOG Incorporated's Art
Department Professional and will enable such Hies to be loaded and saved. Using
this compression technique a true colour or greyscale image can be cut to a fraction
of its size without noticeable degradation.
The user specifies how much compression should take place and the firm claims
that results of 80 to I or better are possible. People using the Amiga in video, print
and other imaging related work will be able to keep more images online in a man-
ageable fashion and transmit them more easily.
ADPro files meet the JFIF standard which enables images created on other com-
puters such as IBM PCs and Apple Macintoshes to be exchanged with its own. The
UK distributor is Silica Systems (08 1 -309 1111).
PC emulation
A NSW adaptor is to be bunched at
the World ol Commodore Show to
enable A1500 and A2000 users to
plug KCS' Power PC Board into their
computed.
The device a necessary for anybody
wanting to run the X T emulator on the
high end Amigas and is to be cbsely
followed by a software update. It will
add VGA and EGA graphics resolu-
tions, but due to restrictions caused by
certain software packages the VGA
option might be limited to mono-
chrome use only.
It is expected to sell for £25.
Flow gets
better
TEXAS based New Horizons (010 1
512 328 6650) have announced
changes to their "idea organiser" pro-
gram. Flow.
Designed to enable the user to
enter ideas and thoughts and go back
to build the document in a logical
constructed manner, it is said to be
ideal for teachers, students, journalists
and other people who are constantly
writing and preparing presentations
and articles.
Version 3 of the software includes
outline automatic numbering, ARexx
support, the ability to create macros,
saveable configurations, headers and
footers, spellchecking, Workbench 2
enhancements, document information
and numerous printing enhance-
ments.
Company president James Bayless:
"Flow is the only program of its kind
on the Amiga platform and fills a very
important need in the markeL The
continued enhancements of Flow is
another indication that New Horizons
is meeting its goals and the needs of
their users."
Upgrade information is available
from New Horizons, while the price for
new users is $110.
Impulse gets
foundation
A NEW personal software authoring sys-
tem has just been announced by
Minneapolis-based Impulse Incor-
porated (0101 612 566 0221).
Foundation is described as being an
expert system for gaining complete
control over the Amiga and enabling
users to create applications and interac-
tive presentations without program-
ming knowledge.
The package can automate all com-
puter tasks. It records actions with its
Macro Recorder, plays back tutorial
programs about the software and gives
online help with a built in HyperView
stack system.
Stacks supplied include the FounDex
phone and address stack, Calendar .the
MediaBase animation and a sound and
picture database. Each can be modified
to add buttons for printing reports, log-
ging on to online services and for
simultaneously launching and commu-
nicating with other programs.
The software can be used for creat-
ing automated business presentations,
WHAT'S
new
standalone marketable stackware, per-
sonalised home and office organisers
and front end screens to control laser
disks, video recorders and CD-rom
drives.
Users adapt the example stacks and
objects that are supplied with the soft-
ware or by using the FAST-Talk script-
ing language. A debugger and compiler
ensures that routines can be fine-tuned
and stored in libraries and tools accessi-
ble by any stack in the memory.
"Foundation is the glue that will
hold a home office together, and make
small businesses profitable and compet-
itive in today's fast moving world," said
an Impulse spokesperson.
The program, whkh does not have a
UK distributor, is available for S250,
and demonstration disks are available.
Music designer launched
BARS and Pipes Professional has been released for composing, recording
and designing music with the Amiga.
II provides an unlimited number of tracks and notes and Ihe sequencer
has all the features normally found as well as Ihe ability to see the music as
it plays. There are unlimited methods of editing music in real time.
Toots enable tunes to be enhanced as they are composed, played back or
edited and the modules perform standard musical and technical tasks to
save time and give a creative edge.
It includes a range of editing oplions such as an event list, piano roll and
music notation thai can be seen, heard and changed. By using the mouse,
Midi events can be adjusted graphically or numerically and music can be
printed at any time.
There is also an automated mixing feature, MixMaestro, which includes
real time control of volume, panning and other Midi controllers. As music
plays various sliders and knobs adjust the balance of the arrangement
Running on any Amiga with at least one megabyte ol memory, it cosU
S379 from Atlanta based Blue Ribbon Soundworks (010 1 404 177 1514). Al
the time of going to press there was no UK distributor.
Colour laser for £5
A FIRM has just been lormed to offer a
colour printing service for Amiga users
unable to meet the £10,000 price tag
lor a top quality laser printer
Computer artists sending a file to
Tamworth-based Studio 101 (0827
280884) will receive a pnntout of then
work Irom a Panlone-regislered colour
laser printer. The cost of an A4 image
h £5. with additional coptes available
lew £2 50
Mies Irom leading art packages
including Delude Paint, Pro-Page and
Photon Pami arc accepted.
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WHAT'S
Backup utility
A PROGRAM being llagged as the
first lull backup system tor Amiga
hard disk users has been released by
Electronic Zoo (0285 641541).
MRBackup Professional has more
than 60 backup commands tor sav-
ing to tloppy disks or tape streamers
and will cost £29.99.
Silica gets Audition 4
SOUND sampling software. Audition 4
is to compete against AudioMaster
when it becomes available in the UK
soon from Silica Systems (081-309
1111).
Aimed as an upgrade to the software
provided free with hardware sound
samplers, the program's features
include the ability to "try out" an effect
without damaging the original sample,
its fast operation and large range ol dis-
tortion effects.
It can sample in mono or stereo,
with sample rates of up to 55KHz.
There are echos, delays, smoothing,
waveform tuning, fade, filter, bass and
treble control, cut, copy and paste fea-
tures and a zoom facility. Audition 4
supports direct to disk recording to its
floppy disk format.
Price: £49.99
Studio 16 cards
SUNRIZE Industries' Studio 16 software
is being bundled with one of two cards
to convert Amigas into professional dig-
ital audio workstations. Hours of work
can be recorded directly to hard disk
and synchronised with timecode.
A complete video sound track can be
edited, special effects added and
glitches and filter noise fixed. The cards
supplied are either 12 or 16-bit sam-
plers.
The AD1 01 2 is a 1 2-bit sampler card
intended as a low cost option for edit-
ing video sound tracks, features includ-
ing audio in/out, adjustable low pass
filters and a SMPTE time code reader.
The 16-bit card, the AD1016, also
supports audio in/out, eight times over-
sampling digital filters, digital in/out for
DAT or CD hookup, Midi in/out and
SMPTE in.
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Teddy and Freddie
stay in Fun School
ONE of the most popular series of education programs is set for its fourth
release. Fun School 4 retains the popular Teddy and Freddie the Frog and adds
Sammy the Spy to the line up of educational fun.
Through a series of interactive learning games, the programs in the new soft-
ware have been developed to conform to the National Curriculum. For under-
lies, Teddy returns in a pair of Reeboks and a baseball cap, with six educaUonal
programs giving games for art, maths, words, karaoke and others.
Freddie the Frog carries his skateboard to the street for five to seven-year-
olds. Freddie features in games covering sequences, maths, word sorting and
typing, to improve a child's keyboard skills.
Eight to eleven-year-olds learn with Sammy the Spy, who by travelling the
world teaches geography, maths, general knowledge and timetables. Europress
Software can be contacted on 0625 859333.
Animation winners chosen
A PANEL of three judges
looked at nearly 50
entries for the Amiga
Centre Scotland 1991
Animation Competition,
held during the recent
Edinburgh Festival,
before choosing the
winning entries.
Split into three cate-
gories the winners were
as follows. Taking a
Harlequin 1500, in first
place in the non-com-
mercial category, was
Paul Franklin with his
Mondo Data Phage work.
Ken Blackey's The Fly won the commercial category and the Eric Schwartz Award
was won with The Dating Came by Eric Schwartz.
Organiser Martin Lowe said: "We were very please to receive nearly 50 entries this
year. And also I was very impressed with the creativity, originality and technical qual-
ity of many of the animations."
"I would like to give my thanks to the companies who together donated nearly
£6,000 worth of prizes and also to the judges who were faced with a difficult task and
showed great skill and ingenuity to ensure a fair allocation of winners."
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Although Amiga Computing has scores of contacts in the Amiga world we need
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DIARY
DATES
October 11 to 13. 1991
The Computer Market Show
Organiser. Rex Centre
(021-773 9090)
Venue: Rex Ctntre, Birmingham
A new show, aimed at users shopping
for computers, software and consum-
ables at low prices.
3 November, 1991
All Formats Computer fair
Organiser. Bruce Evehss
(022 S 868100)
Venue: Royal Horticultural Hall, London
10November,1991
Venue: National Motorcycle Museum,
SoWiutf
Brings together a collection of small
firms and PD libraries.
15 to 17 November, 1991
World ol Commodore
Organiser ITP Exhibitions
Venue: Earl's Court 2
The 1 5th Commodore event.
1 December, 1991
All Formats Computer Fair
Organiser: Bruce Events
(022S 868100)
Venue: City Hall, Candteriggs, Glasgow
14 December, 1991
Venue: Royal Horticultural Hall, London
15 December, 1991
Venue: University of Leeds Sports
Centre, Leeds
Plenty of bargains and heaps of pub-
lic domain software.
5 to 8 December, 1991
Computer Shopper Show
Organiser Blenheim Pel
(081-868 4466)
Venue: Wembley Exhibition Halls
An opportunity to buy some bargains
before Christmas.
7 to 9 February, 1992
Sth International 16-bit Computer
Show
Organiser Westminster Exhibitions
(081-S49 3444)
Venue: Novate! Hotel, Hammersmith
The first post-Christmas Amiga show.
Expect plenty of bargains.
OVERSEAS EVENTS
1 to 3 November, 1991
Amiga '91 Koln
Organiser: Ami Shows Europe QmbH
(010 49 8092 24086)
Venue: Fairground, Cologne, Germany
The second major German show of
the year expects to attract more than
200 exhibitors.
• If your company is organising a
show relevant to the Amiga and it's
not listed, lei us know so we can
include the information in the diary.
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AmigaDOS 2.04
Officio/ announcement
t»* tkl of news from DevCon that
.tpptoved tor public consump-
t»o ...r- the official release ol
A/mgaDOS release 2 tor the Amiga
S00 and 2000
KickStari 2.04 - version 37.1 75
on the About menu, il you want to
check yours - is now available at a
<l'vk update lor Amiga J000 own-
ers, and enhancer kits containing
dtsks and roms for the Amiga 500
and 200O will be available In the US
somelimc in October.
What this moans 'or a UK release
is unknown, since each country's
vales company will decide when lo
'please the upgrjde. But by
October the packages, manuals,
roms and disks should be ready lo
go.
While many users have grown
impatient wailing lor this
AmigaDOS upgrade, it's worth the
wail. The release 2.04 ol 1991 is
very different from the release 2.00
that shipped with the Amiga iOOO
in 1990.
Most ol the delay resulted Irom
Commodore's wise decision Lo add
a number of routines to make
poorly-wntten software more com-
patible. Il was easy to tell which
programs broke the rules under
early versions ol 2.0 - they invari-
ably crashed. But release 2.04 will
run more than 90 per cent ol exist-
ing Amiga software.
Now there's no reason not to
upgrade your Kickstart. And the
extra time gave Commodore the
chance lo (Infill their Compu-
graphic outline lont technology,
giving Amiga owners access to
smooth fonts in any size.
WHAT'S
Report by Denny
Future looks good for Amiga
THE 1991 North American Amiga
Developer's Conference was held in
Denver, Colorado - the Mile-High City -
September 3 to 7. As I write this, I'm fly-
ing home from the conference, feeling
awfully good about the future of the
Amiga.
Unfortunately, most of what was dis-
cussed at this year's DevCon is under
strict non-disclosure. Developers can't
talk about what's coming until alter
Commodore officially announce any
new products.
However, you can take heart in know-
ing that evidence abounded at DevCon
that issues such as better graphics,
sound, and new Amiga markets are high
priorities in Commodore's future plans.
While the lay offs announced last
month were a bit disconcerting,
Commodore still have more employees
in research and development than in
most years previous, and they're hard at
work developing neat stuff. One of the
highlights of DevCon occurred when
members of the CDTV and AmigaDOS
release 2 development teams paraded
Perfectly fascinating
FROM the creators of Empire, possibly the most addictive war game of all time,
comes the Perfect General. Authors Mart Baldwin and Bob Rakosky have outdone
themselves with this superbly playable battle game.
Like the earlier Empire, The Periect General's biggest strength comes from its sim-
plicity. All actions can be initiated with the mouse, Joystick or keyboard.
You're not overburdened with minute details like many of the hex-based war
games. The computer takes care of minutia such as unit strengths and movement
limits. You simpfy move your units and tell them where to fire.
The game- includes 14 scenarios ranging Irom the simple, speedy First Battle to the
more complex Patton Kicks Butt. You have a variety ol units at your command, rang-
ing from infantry and tanks lo engineers who can build mines and bridges. You can
play against the computer, against another player on the same Amiga, or against
another Amiga or PC running
the Perfect General using a
modem.
The game is hard disk-
installable, and uses only
word-lookup protection.
There's a lot of gameplay
here for J59.9S.
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through the Developer's Showcase to
the tune of Lemmings. Resplendent in
green mop-hair, the large-as-life
Lemmings bounced down the stairs,
climbed over obstacles, and jumped off
hotel furniture carrying umbrellas.
Finally, Bryce Nesbitt and Leo Schwab,
blockers extraordinaire, exploded in a
blast of confetti and the Lemmings
escaped into an elevator, to the applause
and laughter of most of the 265 devel-
opers in attendance.
1991 Developers' Choice Awards
A number of developers were selected by
1991 Developers' Choke Awards. The win
Best Educational Software:
Best Entertainment Software:
Best Consumer Productivity Software:
Best Professional Productivity Software:
Best User Interface:
Best Hardware:
Amiga Hall of Fame:
their peers at DevCon to receive the
ners were;
Distant Suns by Virtual Reality
Laboratories
Lemmings by Psygnosis
AmigaVision by Commodore
AmigaDOS C Development System
by SAS Institute
Workbench 2.0 by Commodore
Video Toaster by NewTek
Fish Disks by Fred Fish
ProWrite Perfected
OWE ol the first developers to announce o product that lakes advantage of 2.04's CC lont
technology is New Horizons (010 1 S12128 6650), makersol the ProWrite wordprocessor.
ProWrite i.2, which should be available by the time you read this, will automatically use
larger sited fonts and scale them down to printer resolution when priming. II you 're running
Workbench 1,3 and have a larger bitmap ol the current lont in your FONTS: directory, you
should see a decent improvement. Output Irom a 2.04 system, though, will be al your
printer's highest resolution, resulting in true taggy-free priming.
Other improvements include a new '3D look" user interlace, even under Kickstart 13.
key equivalents in requesters, direct insertion of text files into ProWrite documents, exporting
ol files in Professional Page text formal, automatic timed saving of backup Hies, and a more
flexible macro menu, which will allow you to give ARexx macros real names, instead ol
"Macro, I 'and so on.
You no longer need the ProScnpt add-on to output to PostScript printers. Ml of ProWrite's
features, including fonts, styles, colour, and columns ore now supported in PostScript output.
II you have a colour printer, ywll be delighted by ProWrite 1.2's improved colour sup-
port. Pictures now preserve their original colour palette - when they're displayed onscreen
they automatically map to the closest approximate Kreen colour Also, when you resize a
picture down and then up in sue, the picture doesn i come out Wociy any more - (he origi-
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Many ProWrite users love everything about the program except its Macintosh-like Hie
requester. Now, Workbench 2.04 users can choose to use the system-stondard ASt requestei
instead. ProWrite i.2 also adds support tor releose 2.04's Public Screen feature, so you can
now open the wordprocessor on another screen, for instance, you could use it lo take notes
as text scrolls by on your comms program's screen.
Registered ProWrite owners mil be sent upgrade information through the mail. ProWrite
i.2 retails lor J 175. Upgrades from ProWrite i.O or i. I are 120; from 2.0 or 2.5. S60, and
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a similar way to the familiar icons and
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You'll be glad to know that Amiga
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not only gives you the chance to
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a whole range of icons are available for
Ihe producer to choose from. As a
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Any newcomers to icon creation may
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Artistic history
rrlofiodouta little more about the ortfsfic background ol The Chart Show, I
to louM Hod/ey( the woman behind the show'! graph* design and one ol the
tqhts in the field of computer generaied graphics,
M * turned out, Loon revealed that many of the familiar animations and graphic
«*» employed by the show are, in TV term, rather doted.
As a result, on December I the show will be undergoing a complete face-lift
Ms to a whole range of new techniques and equipment, some of whKh may well
be added thanks to the Amiga which along with ofher systems is beginning to revo-
tttyjoe TV graph/a. ,
The Amiga's arrival in such lofty graphic amies is down to the recent explosion ol
244* boards and paint packages which are about to turn the TV worW upside down
- they are already making their matt in everything from game shows to feJevmon
^'tt?post much of The Chart Show's artwork has been provided thanks to
Quontet's Paintbox which has hng been the industry standard in 24-M art. Now
that's all changed thanks to the Amiga's 24-bit abiHUes. Nevertheless n s st.ll worth
looking back at how things used to be in the bad old days...
Apart from Paintbox, a three dmens.onal system entnled Dubner has been the
mainstay of most ol the show's graph* output. This is the hardware responsible for
the famous plane and rocket sequences and indeed the majority ol speaal amrna-
lions such os the Exclusive Release animation and many more besides.
Other systems such as Cubicomp are at the controls of the Homes whKh Mat
from the rear of the rocket When all of the elements are complete the entire package
is brought together with the aid ol Paintbox.
Moving mentioned all ol this high power and high price hardware, ,t s perhaps
easy to forget that some of the mast interesting graphic effects needn t cost the
earth. The opening roller-coaster sequence is a pnme example.
This particular piece ol wizardry ,s the product of a cameraman ^'^ut^n
to the wind and brav,ng the worst that Alton Towers could throw at him Mer the
,ive act-on was captured on film, the shots were edited back in the studo and then
each frame was hand painted using the Paintbox and a production technique known
™ llaZmthe new took provided by the next generate of hardware, there could
bean added mystery name appearing all over the glossy graphics ol the show.
An unnamed sponsor is about to lend its financial muscle to the
unfortunately, even otter my best efforts os an investigative reporter, I coukln t glean
any more than a 'no comment " as to the identity of the mystery backer
As a result I'm afraid we'll all have to wait to hnd out which of the corporate
giants intend to make the best even better.
1
► designer foni that's easy to read and
suits the environment of The Chart
Show's all action video format.
Designing a font should be within
everyone's grasp thanks to the
Workbench Extras disk which every
Amiga owner should have hidden away
in the back of a long-forgotten disk
box. If you boot the disk you'll find a
utility entitled FED which funnily
enough stands for Font Editor, With the
aid of this handy tittle utility you
shouldn't have any problem creating
your very own designer font.
If the prospect of creating a com-
plete character set Tills you with more
apprehension .than any amount of
Icons, don't despair - it's perfectly
acceptable to load a standard Amiga
font and modify it to your own design,
but remember - the more original the
design, the more likely it is to win.
An important point is to make sure
you create a full character set, not just
the letters - a complete range of
numerical characters is required as well
as all the essential quotation marks,
commas, colons and so on.
The only restriction to your calli-
graphic exploits is the point size of the
font itself, which must be between 12
and 1 9 point You can design as many
fonts within this range as you like. But
remember your entry is not valid if the
fonts are smaller than 12 point or big-
ger than 1 9 point.
Producing the goods
Designing your icons is simplicity itself
and can be done either with one of the
many icon creation utilities that lurk
within the public domain or by employ-
ing Dpaint to produce suitable brushes
which can then be transformed into
icons for use with the appropriate infor-
mation boxes.
The advantage of using icon creating
utilities such as IconMaster and Icon
Magic is the addition of the Pattern Fill
option which effectively gives you four
extra paint effects to add to the original
four colours of the Workbench screen.
This is done by alternating colours in
a fill function to give a fine mesh effect
which can be applied to any filled area
within an icon.
When these extra pattern effects are
applied to the secondary image of a
twin picture icon, its animated effect
can be greatly enhanced thanks to the
Amiga's familiar double clicking pro-
fconi art ta\y wtth DPaml
cess. If you're unfamil-
iar with icon creators,
any good PD library
will happily supply the
necessary program com-
plete with documents
which will guide you
through the finer points.
Regular readers will be
glad to know that they
could already have the
necessary software among
their coverdisk collection,
the most recent example
being Huge, the icon utility
that was given away in the
March issue of Amiga
Computing.
Workstation owners also
have a head start thanks to
what has become the most
popular of all icon creators,,
namely IconMaster, which is
just one of the many utilities
waiting within the disk.
H we assume that you're
equipped with either a copy
of Dpaint or a suitable utik
ity, the next job is to cre-
ate your icons. With an
Icon editor all that's
required is an idea and
you're off.
For Dpaint fans things
are a little more complex.
First you must specify the
correct resolution which has
to be medium-res, and in
order to save confusion later
on the available colours
should also be set, to eight
When the design stage of
r
9
KonMasler, on the Workstation dhk
21
*• your project finally gets under way,
remember to keep your icons to rea-
sonable proportions in relation to the
screen. K you're familiar with The Chart
Show, as I'm sure you are. you'll have a
good idea of what's required.
If you're one of our many European
and American readers or even those fur-
ther afield this translates to about the
size of a postage stamp for each of the
12 (com
This size restriction applies to both
the first and second stage of the icon so
don't let you imagination run too wild
as far as size is concerned - after all, the
viewers still want to get a look at the
artists, not just the icons and - of
course - the juicy details they reveal.
Competition essentials
3. Make sure your designer .on. Is Induded on <ne disk and ,s ..beHed
included with you entry.
s. The compe.l.lon H open un.l, November 5 « , e sure ,o os.^ur
en.rle, In plen.y o. Ume ,o mee. Park,
s=r^=r&no.LnCIUded
in the competition.
Behind th
It's just gone quarter past twelve on a
humid Friday afternoon as my taxi pulls
up outside an anonymous, tall and oth-
erwise uninteresting building in the
heart of London's Soho.
I have armed at what the broadcast
industry has come to know as a "facili-
ties house". This is basically a high-tech
hotel where TV programme makers can
rent rooms or "suites" packed full of
video equipment. The sort of kit
, needed to edit a
H programme to
H broadcast qual-
H ity is awesomely
i accurate and
H toe-curlingly
H expensive.
H When you
H consider that
H some suites
ost well
)ver £500
an hour to
rent you
get some
idea of
the scale of
Die humble Amiga 2000
hai plenty lo do...
If
...even with
oil thlt gear around!
hardware invest-
ment we are talk-
ing about.
There are
thousands of
edit suites in
London's West
End where pro-
grammes are fin-
ished off by production teams
working to strict standards and tight
deadlines.
After paying the taxi I am escorted
to a small room hidden up several stair-
cases separated by sharp corners and
fire doors.
I am now in "Edit 2" of "Wiseman",
where The Chart Show's producer Phil
Oavey is )ust putting the finishing
touches to part one of tomorrow's
show.
Go with the flow
The Chart Show is enjoyed every week
by over two and a half million viewers,
so it's important that every cut and link
is just right. If an editor has done his
job property, you won't be aware of the
joins. A good programme should flow.
This is especially true of The Chart
Show, where there are no presenters to
take up slack or fill in gaps. Every single
video is linked by graphics sequences.
Some wipe, some fade, some mix but
they all bind the programme together.
It takes a complete working day to
get one Chart Show down on tape.
This might seem a long time for around
50 minutes of television, but by most
recognised standards it is positively
speedy. The programme uses a whole
range of technologies and techniques
to achieved its high-lech look and feel.
Vision mixers, character generators, and
a bank of video recorders all combine
to produce that unmistakable look.
We are not here to admire the moni-
ie"McKendrick
visits The Chart
Show
tors or flashing lights though. At the
end of the control desk sits the comput-
erised star of the show. A lone Amiga
2000 complete with external drive is
responsible for the generation and dis-
play of The Chart Show's icons and
information boxes.
The Chart Show uses a custom piece
of software which allows an operator to
input the information you seen in the
dialogue boxes and then decide which
icon will display it. The system is by no
means as ornate as it could be. Ease of
use has taken priority over features,
but that's only sensible considering the
fast moving environment within which
it (s being employed.
Compare the cost of the Amiga with
the rest of Wiseman's kit in "Edit 2" and
the humble 2000 is almost disposable.
However the graphics input our trusty
machine provides to The Chart Show
has proven it invaluable.
Those Amiga icons have become The
Chart Show's hallmark, just as the
Amiga is starting to become the hall-
mark of quality video work with the
onset of 24-bit paint systems and
Amiga controlled editors. There's an
exciting time ahead.
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PRINTERS
Ail our pontes are UK
soeaticai©" and are
covered by a 12 months
warranty- Ail ine pnees
include a printer lead ana
a tailored dust cover
All Our Amiga's are
UK speoltcation and come
complete with the
loUowmo:—
Amiga Pack 1 (Casstt Pack)
5i2K random access
memory
Built-in dish drive
4096 cotour graphics
4 channel stereo sound
Kjcksiart 13
Workbench i 3
Extras 13 and tutorial d«sK
Amiga mouse
TV modulator
Power supply unit
A500 keyboard
Bart Simpson
Captain Planet
Deiu»o Paint HI
and game ot the year
Lemmings
We also grw you:-
Mouse mat and pocket *
dust cover. 10 blank disks
and boi. OmcKshoi
Python, 1 joystick
PIUS
10 more GrMf Games
Football Manager
Hotshot
Las Vegas
Fl>gh! Path 737
Fuebiaser
Karting Grand Prix
Thai Boxing
Seconds -Out
Mouse Trap
PI tot
Amiga Pack 2
(Cfessc Pack Pfut)
As Pack l but also
includes the Cumana
CAX3S4 external disk
drive
Amiga Pack 3
(Oasse MMr Pack)
As Pack 1 but includes tne
Star LC200 'uircolouf
pnnler
Amiga Pack 4
iThe UKmto Pack)
As Pack 1 but includes
Star LC200 colour pnnler
plus Philips CM8a33>ll
stereo colour monitor
Amiga Pack 5
(Educator* Pack)
As Pack l but includes a
selection o* educational
software —
Spell Book (ages 4-9)
Things to do with woras
(ages 5-12)
Things to do with numbers
(ages 5-10)
Lets spell at the shops
(ages 4 10)
Let's spefl at nome
(ages 4 tO)
Let's spe» out and about
(ages 4-10)
. Puzzle Book V(5 to, adult)
Puzzle 'Book 2 (5 to adult)
Amiga Pack 6 (Gamers Pack)
As Pack 1 but also
includes some of the
hottest games — ,
F29 Retaliate
Fi9Stoatth Fighter.
Lotus Esprit Turbo
Challenge.
Swiv (Silkworm II).
Bight ot the Intruder
Stir LC-tO A pepotar low cost
M&ToPfflfar
Multiple 'onl options Irorn
Iron! panel
Excellent paper nandkng
facilities
Simultaneous, continuous
and angle sheet stationery
'240x240 DPI graphics
Star LC 24-10
24 Pit VeflfOfl of LCIO
Excellent letter quality pnnt
360x360 DPI graphics
8 resident lonts
Adononal font cartndges
available
Star LC200 Cotour Printer
An exc&lent rcto for money
Colon Printer
240 DPI 9 p«n colour
Front pane* pitch selection
Push/pull tractor feeds
Heverso paper teeds
16K buffe'
8 resident fonts
Supplied with co*oui and
mono ribbons
Front panel programmable
Paper park with auto
single sheet loading
Star LC24-20O Mono Pnntet
80 column dot matrix
printer
7K buffer expandable to
39K
tO resident fonts
Paper park with auto
single sheet loading
Supplied wrth mono ribbon
Faster then LC24-10
Extra font cartridges
available
Front panel pitch selection
Programmable irom front
pan©)
Star LC24-200 Colour Printer
360 DPI 24 pin colour
printer
30K buffer expandable to
62K
1 0 resident fonts .
Front panel t>tch selection
Reverse paper feed
Paper park with auto
single sheet loading
r «4.94
Suppked with colour and
mono ribbons ,
Front panel programmable
Extra font cartridges
available
OQtn120D +
A very popular low cost
mono pnnler Centronics/
RS232/CBM 64 ser.al
Please specify interface
when ordering (two year
warranty)
Citizen 1240 24 pin Mono
Printer
BK butler expandable
Push and p\* tractor feeds
3 fonts with excelled
tetter quality
(two year warranty)
Citizen Swift 9 pin Cotour
Printer
8K buffer
240x240 OPI colour
graphics
Push and pun tractor leeds
Excellent pnnt. quality
(two year warranty)
Citizen Swift 24 pin Cotour
Printer
European Printer o* the
Year 1990
24 pin version of the 9 pm
colour printer
360x360 DPI colour
graphics
Push and pull tractor feed
£309.«
PERIPHERALS
We stock a large
range of peripherals all of
the highest quality it you
can't see the one you
'equire please give us a
call to see it we slock it.
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Mice and Trackballs
Naksha Upgrade Mouse
Armga/Atan swrtchabk;
Simply the best
260 DPI resolution
Ergonomic design
Smooth precise operation
"2 years guarantee
Free mouse mat
Free mouse pocket
Now mdudes
Operation Stealth trom US
Gokd Only
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MEDIA DIRECT — THE AMIGA SPECIALISTS
Mega Deals, Multi-Choice
t
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zcm Amiga' Alan
cement mouse
3* resolution
■> sick operation
|Q* Trackball by Alfa
Er.at*e between Atari
: *.T.,ga the third
IK* be'ihe best
• Packbail available
1 NaMna Scanner
r* Amiga A500
OPl 32 grey shade
**id scanner
»*oe >nclu<tes
W* hand scanner
D Wertace
v supply urwt
i Scan professional
n»e 'The Ulnmate
**** So 'twere
Eiaannon Boards
»* A500 0.5 Mb HAM
msion board
Mies memotv lo i Mb
technology
■cement lot A50I
witch
1 5 Mb RAM
")n
need more memory
i f*s board is lor you
> en extra l 5 Mb ol
' lo your machine
a total ol 2 MEGS
with dock/
Uses me latest
DRAMS lor low
consumption 12 -
guarantee
KicKsiart 1 3 or
ta^iy titled into the
ler your A500
res no soldering ft he
(X your A5C0 muV
loved to* fitting the
li Connector)
service available
fo> details
RAM 500 fix
expansion
2 4. of 6 Mb last
'^Amiga 500
£29.95
£129.95
£26.95
£29.95
£84.95
Easily plugs mto A 500
expansion pod
Amiga bus through port
Eas>iy expandable zero
wait slates and
mdden refresh lets you run
larger and more
sophisticated programs
Allows creation ol large
and very last RAM disks
Test mode and software
simplify troubleshooting
On/Of switch
.Supra/am 500RX 2Mb
'Supiaram 500RX 4Mb
Supraram 500RX 8Mb
EHernal Disk Drives
£195.00
£270.00
£420.00
Cumana C AX 354
Very qmet StfraHna
design Throughport
connector On/oll switch
on rear Long connecting
cable 880K formatted
capaoty Fits all Armgas
...
ONLY
£57
95
Supradnve 'or Amiga
A500
Using state of the art
technology these drives
use the same amount of
power as a floppy <*sk
dnve These dnves are
snipped lormaned and
ready to use so you can
Simply plug-m your drive
turn on your compuler and
the system is ready lo use
The drive can be
configured as auloboot or
non auloboot. it can nave
uplo 8Mb of Ram and as
many as r-> SCSI drives
can be connected
together The dnves aiso
come wwh ' express
copy , harp dish backup
software, "superbool" and
Supertools" 'tie
management and
formatting programs
52Mb Hard dnve
with 0 5Mb Ram
62Mb Hard drive
with 2Mb Ram
80Mb Hard dnve
win 0 5Mb Ram
80Mb Hard drive
with 2Mb Ram
105Mb Hard dnve
w4h 0 5Mb Ram
105Mb Hard drive
wth 2Mb Ram
We also stock the range of
Supra modems phone for
details
Zydec External Drive
Very quiet *
Slimline design
Quality Dtt/e.i drive
mecnanism
On/oft switch on rear
Long connecting cable
B80K formatted capacity
Fits all Amigas Only
DISKETTES
Master. Sound —
Mono Sound Sampler
A low cost high features
sound sampler package
includes hardware and , -
software with a host of
features to sample- and 1
edit music live onto your
Amiga Only
Miscellaneous
Midi Master — Midi
Interface for the Amiga
Midi in — 3X Midi out and
Midi through
Compatible with all leading
miu> software
Fully OPTO isolated
Includes two free rrnoi
cables
Please state A500/1000/
2000 when ordering Only
Action Replay MKII by
Datei
A wnote host ol features
Including Freezel'ame
Boot Seteetor, Vitus
Detection and much much
moro. Only
Replacement Amiga A 500
power supply
Replacement internal disk
drive lor Amiga ASOO
(original Commodore one
— no modification
required)
SoundBlaster
The amazing Soundblasier
adds a new dimension to
your games Blasting out
stereo sound at 5 watts
per channel into two high
quality 50 watt 3 way
speakers The pack comes
complete w>tn an AC
power supply and as an
added bonus there is a
pair of free stereo
headphones
ONLY
£4495
Amiong Offers 0"
W DSDD KAO BULK
DISKETTES
25 DSOO 135 Ipi
50 OSOO 135 ipi
£11.95
£21 .95
75 DSQD 135 Ipi
£31.95
100 DSDD 135 Ipi
£37.95
200 DSDD 135 tor
£71 95
500 DSDD 135 Ipi
£169.95
)000 DSDD 135 ip*
£309.95
All 3.5" disks are
supplied wiin labels and
are t0O% error free
' 2 'or 1 guarantee
Riinoow Diskettes
Red. green, yellow
orange, black white
Colours and quantity of
your choice
3.5" DSDD Disks
25 DSDD 135 tpi .
£13.75
50 DSDD 135 tpi
£26.45
100 DSDD 135 tp
£44.95
200 DSDO 135 to
£84.95
3.5' DSDD SONY BULK
DISKETTES
25 DSDO 135 Ipi
£13.45
50 DSDD 135 tpi
£23.95
100 DSDD 135 Ipi
£42.95
200 DSOD 135 lot
£81.95
500 DSDD 135 tp.
£189.95
1000 DSDD 135 tp.
£349.95
Remember!! Remember!! Remember! I
We only supply lop quality
diskettes Our 3 5" diskettes are
manufactured by KAO and our
5 25" cfcskettes are manufactured
by ATHANA
We do not sen substandard
diskettes trom the Far East
MONITORS
Philips CM8833/II
Stereo Colour Monitor
All our monitors are ol UK
specification, are covered
by a 12 month warranty'
and come complele will a
connecting lead .
£244.95
1ST
Media Direct Computer Supplies Ltd
Urvi 3 Railway Enterprise Centre
Snefton New Road. Stoke on Treffl
Staffordshire ST4 7SH
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Media Direct
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DISKETTE
STORAGE BOXES
Ban* Box
Slacks horu'Q"ta»v
vertically and can hold
upto 90 3 5- disfctfies
An our storage bones
come with and stain: W.
two keys and dividers
where applicable
Atari dust cover
Amiga dust cover
Sia, LClO dust cover
Star LC24-10 dust cover
Star LC200 dust cover
Star LC24 200 dust cover
2 piece qnnte* stand
fl"ilt 'n' tu/n monitor stand
Monrior ptynth
Switches and CaWts
Monitor Cables
Amiga to CBM 10B4S
monitor cable
Amiga to Phillips CM8833
cable
- Am-ga to scad cable
Amiga to HuaotufGranada
V prn dm
Amiga to multisync 15 pin
li row plug
Amiga to multisync I5r»n
3 way socket
EDUCATIONAL
SOFTWARE
3 5" 100 capacity bo«
3 S" BO capacity bo*
3 5" 50 capacity box
3 5" 40 capacity box
5 25' 100 capacity box
5 25" 50 capacity bo"
Otter
Deduct El 00 Tom above
Do* price. if cxi' chasing a
quantity o< diskettes
(Mm 25 disks)
JOYSTICKS
Speedking Standard
Speedking Autolire
Speedking Sega'
Mogadnve
Navigate
Sting Ray Standard
Sting Ray Autodre
Sung Ray Sega Megadm
Mania Ray Standard
Mania Ray Autofare
Mania Ray Sega
Megadnve
Zipstick Standard
Zipstick Autodre
£13.95
CI 4. 95
CI 5.95
Stackable Storage Boies
These boxes are >deai
lor the person who
requires an alternative to
the standard style box or
who has a large number
ol disks to store
Posso Box
The Posso box holds
1 50 3 5" diskettes or
70 5 25." diskettes and
can be stacked
horizontally or vert'Calty
Please state 3 5" or 5 25'
version when ordenng
Bulk Storage Box
ideal lor bulk storage ot
diskettes, each box can
notd upio 250 3 5"
diskettes
S"j* 'jr • t<
3*
5-
Cotnpetition Pro 5000
Black
Competition Pro 5000 .
Clear
Competition Pro Go E«"a
Competition Pro Ext fa
Competition Pro Star
Python t Turbo III
(QS137F)
python 3 Sega Megadnve
Apache 1 (QS131)
Fltghtgnp 1 (QS129F)
Mavenck 1 (OS13BF)
Chimera 3 Sega
Megadnve (OSMO)
Intruder t (OS 149)
intruder 3 Sega Megadnve
(OS 150)
Aviatoi 1 (OS155)
Aviator 3 Sega Megadnve
(OS '56)
ACCESSORIES
All our accessories are
ot the highest quaMy
General
Mouse mat
Mouse pocket
3 5" disk drive cleaner
5 25" chsk drive cleaner
£S.9S
Cfi.95
£9.95
C9.95
Data/Printer Cables
Parallel printer cable
36 way to 36 way
Centronics cable
25 way D type male/male
cebte
25 way D-iype
male/temaie cable
26 way D type lem/lem
cable
Data Switches
2 way parallel data swtch
2 way serial data switch
3 way parallel daia switch
4 way parallel data switch
Miscellaneous
Amiga 4 piayc* adapter
Atari 4 player adapter
Mouse/|Oystick switcher
Mouse'ioystick extender
cable
C7.95
E7.9S
£7.95
£7.95
C1Z.95
£12.95
£17.95
C6.95
2.95
£12.95
C5.95
PRINTER RIBBONS
We stock a ia>ge
range ol ribbons H you
can't see your particular
type ksted then please
onone us tot a quote
Star
LC10 mono
LC10 colour
LC24-10" mono
LC200 mono ■
LC200 colour
LC24-200 mono
LC24 200 coioui
Citizen 1200
Mono
Citizen Swift 24
mono
Citi/en Swift 9
mono
Citizen Swift 24
colour
Citizen Sw>tt 9
colour
Spell Book (ages 4-9)
Things to do with words
(ages 5-12)
Things to do with numbers
(ages 510)
Lets spell at the shops
(ages 4-10)
Let's spell at home (ages
4- 10)
Let s spell out and about
(ages 4 10)
Puzzle Book i (ages
5 adult)
Puzzle Book 2 (ages
5- adufl)
BOOKS
We stock a large
range ol Abacus books
suitable lor advanced
programmers as well as
bocenneis
Advanced system
programmers guide
Amiga 3D graphics basic
programming
Amiga basic inside
and out
Amiga C advanced
programmers guide
Amiga C lor beginners
Amiga DOS inside and out
Amiga DOS qu-ck
reference
Amiga desktop vdeo
guiBe
Amiga disk drives msrde
and out
Amiga tor beginners
Amiga machine language
An>ga punters inside
and out
Amiga system
oiogrammers guide
Best Airnga tncks and hps
Making music on
the Amiga
- Quality and Value Direct to You
C*l»oal UK Version
«tiuding Altered Beast
1 nun art
ONLY £119.95
tart Software
roomer II
*d Beasl
I rVdd
XI Palmer GoH
m Flash
Squadron
Puooun
C>jr,ri5
Deli Tracey
Pymmite Duke
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KgVlen Welds
■to" Ground
0«3*u>uste<s
Oo>5 n' Ghosts
, Garten A«o
, Jr« Pond •
V Douglas Boxing
Madden US Football
Battle
Mouse
Lair
rboy III)
walker
: DtHertder
tt* GoH Tour
(asy Star tl
ol Shinobi
Dancer
the Hedgehog
Harriet II
* if Hang On
League Baseball
Monaco G P
Real Basket bar
Thunder blade
o» Sooan
ol Vermifton
artoice II
Hawk
Cup Italia 90
Go"
m
•masia
■man
fcjWrwe Accesson«
ArC-aoe oo*er st»ck
|RMd"> **oeo cable
CoH'ol oad
womf base converter
£23.95
£27.45
£27.45
TBA
£27.45
£34.45
£27.45
£27.45
£27.45
£27.45
£27,45
£30.95
£38.95
£27.45
£27.45
£23.95
£30.95
£23.95
TBA
TBA
£32.95
£6.95
£12.95
£27.95
ONoU UK Version
ONLY
£99.k
Game Gear Software
£27.45
Columns
£16.95
£27.45
Pengo
£16.95
£23.95
Psychic Wodd
£16.95
£27.45
Putter GoH
£16.95
£27.45
Super Monaco G P
£16.95
£30.95
Wonder Boy
£16.95
£30.95
Woody Pop
£16.95
£23.95
Dragon Crystal
£19.95
£27.45
Donald Duck
£19.95
£27.45
G Loo
£19.95
£30.95
Golden A*e
£19.95
£27.45
Mickey Mouse
£19.95
£27.45
Ninp Gaiden
£19.95
£27.45
Outrun
£19.95
£27.45
Space Hamer
£19.95
£27.45
Sntnot> .
E19.95
£34.95
Bosebaii
TBA
£27.45
Frogger
TBA
£27.45
Joe Monlanna Footpa*
TBA
£30.95
Kmetic Connection
TBA
£27.45
Talot
TBA
£30.95
£27.45
Game Gear Accessories
£30.95
AC mams adaptor ,
TBA
AV cable
TBA
£27.45
Car lighter adaptor
TBA
£27.45
Game Gear to Game Geo*
£27.45
cable
TBA
£30.95
Game Gear TV tune*
TBA
£46.45
Recnargaote battery pack
TBA
PUBLIC DOMAIN
SOFTWARE
We slock a large
range ol PuWrc Domain
Software, well over 2000
titles in 'act To receive a
catalogue send a ml
class stamp together witn
your name and address 1
you require a catalogue
on disk send three first
class stamps instead ot
one
Here are some of our
more popular packs
Pack 1 - Home Business Pack
This 8 disk pack
corn airs —
Spreadsheet
Word Processor
Amiga Spell .
Memo Pad
inventory
Daiaoase etc. etc £10.00
Pick 2 - Demo Pack
(10 DO*
Budbram t (2 disks)
□ i L/ilvain 7
DUGOfdin e
Bmmih Mpntiil Hannovr
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Hr~iri7r*rr ' SlPfstTifvi Rao
flUltiUl' tJ^ICyi T]j l_*rjtj
P i j wt PiillirVi T'J1
TTifirw*r
UUul IV" ^UwU1 IUC
Dha rwrt an A Iftlawrtt/Vk
rite' 'Kr ' 'el <o unci 3^XJt_l^
npT*iv 1 Simoon*? rternn
£1 1 00
P«k 3 - Music Pick
(IO0rS*P4f»
Vision Music Masters
Crusadent ' Bactena
Musx;
Crack Muse Disk
Jotset Overload
Music OiSk
RAF Megemi* 1
FUsn Digital Concert 6
Flashing Bytes ( *
Sweet Songs One
Mcafraf Panic, Voices or
Energy
L<'usaoers Micro t-orct n
A r chaos Music Disk
£11.00
Pack 4 - Adult Pick
(10 fttf Rk*|
£11.00
Pick 5 - Music Makers Pick 1
£11.00
Pick 6 - Hew Release Pack
Tnis pack changes on a
weekly bass, so is kept
bang up to date
£12.00
THIS MONTHS
SPECIALS
HOW TO ORDER
S 0782 208228
BY POST
Make cheques and postal orders Payable
to MEDIA DIRECT. Please send "us
together wth your name and address,
daytime telephone number il possible
and your order requirements to:—
MEDIA DIRECT COMPUTER SUPPLIES LIMITED
DEPARTMENT 65029
UNIT 3. RAILWAY ENTERPRISE CENTRE
SHELT0N NEW ROAD. STOKE ON TRENT
STAFFORDSHIRE ST4 7SH
FAX: 0782 281506
Carriioe cronjts
Please add £3 35 per order tor postage
and packing.
£5 00 lor orders over £150 00
Sotware and carriages £1.25 per item
Guaranteed TWO Day delivery £6 95
Guaranleed NEXT Day delivery £9 00
Remember!!! Remember!!! Remember!!!
Media Direct are a well established
company with a reputation tor its
quality and service A pent to
conader before purchasing your
computer goods So why not buy
from us and put our reputation to
the test.
AM gloom o*f i ore sublet lo avarfaCMly and lo
Wing the tales' advertised packs ahd prion
(Pack dettMs may vary from Mn« to limol fftOE
HOW TO FIND US
Come and visit our showroom where the
and many other ptoducls are on display
Media Direct Computer Supplies Lie
Urvt 3 Railway Enterprise Centre
Sneton New Road. Stoke on Trenl
Staffordshire ST4 7SH
GOVERNMENT, TRADE AND EDUCATIONAL ORDERS WELCOME
A fully functioning version of Prodata
which will even save small databases to
disk? Are you dreaming?
■Rroduclivtx
Prodata
Tye best coverdisk does it again
with one of the most useful and
oroductrve freebtes ever to find
its way onto our cover. Arnor Software
have been kind enough to release a
demo version which actually saves small
databases of up to twenty records, so
you can't afford to miss this opportu-
nity to make the most of it!
H you already own an earlier release
oT Prodata, skip these pages and dive
straight into the program. The support
material in these pages is strictly for
those who've never used the program,
and especially those who wouldn't
know a database from a tin of sardines.
Right, first things first! Grasping the
key firmly between thumb and forefin-
ger, twist gently until the tin is open,
being careful not to spill any of the veg-
etable oil, as this can make a real mess
of your Amiga keyboard. See what I
mean? How many of you were examin-
ing the disk for a key? None of you? Oh.
The program
Don't worry if you're a database begin-
ner - at its most basic level, Prodata is
an absolute doddle. Once you get your
head round the jargon, you'll be creat-
ing your own databases with gay aban-
don.
To launch the program, double dick
on the coverdisk's icon. Double clicking
on the Prodata program icon will load
an information screen from which you
can press any key to start Prodata.
Alternatively, you can launch the pro-
gram from the Shortcut menu at the
top of your coverdisk Workbench
screen. Don't at this stage press Return
for the list of files as the screen sug-
gests. There aren't any on the disk, so
our first job will be to create one. Be
warned: There's not much free space
on the disk, so to save a decent sized
database you may need to copy
Prodata or delete, say, the machine
code drawer (always ensure you're
using a backup!). Hold down the right
mouse button and select Create New
Database from the "File" menu on the
extreme left of the menu bar.
You will now be asked to type in the
name of the new database. Call it
"coverdisks" and press Return. Two
more questions on the general nature
of the database will be put to you.
In answer to the first question, which
asks if your database will allow duplicate
entries in the index field, type Y. If you
were to answer No to this question, the
database wouldn't allow two records to
have the same entry in the field it uses as
the default index (field 1). just press
Return in answer to the second question.
Fifteen characters rs plenty for the labels
we'll be giving to fields.
You should now be asked to type in
the name of your first data field. The
brackets to the left of the cursor Indi-
cate the field's parameters, but all you
need know about them for the pur-
poses of this tutorial is that the default
field is a text string (hence the S) with a
maximum length of fifty characters.
Our database will have four fields in
each record, which you should name in
the following order: -program/file*,
"Disk No.", Type of Program/File", and
"Comments". As you type each one and
press Return, you will be asked if you
want your input checked to see if it is
printer Database of records Layout Ho. Index to.
Pllv&AT\v1 In ft> Arnnr 1
0»n: (4 F) COWHIKS
Fr inter SIMFLE Recs:
rixDisk v1.2
|*Vlo«3er turbo
t Urujlron
tftelraColer
CtvfrOitfc 17 - Harcti V
Coopr&trt M - Oct SI
CoverOisk ?4 - Oct J1
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the correct type for the field. Answer N
to each question until you have the
four fields named, press Return after the
fourth, then Esc.
Data entry
Once the database form has been saved
to disk, Prodata will ask if you want to
password-protect the file. Answer in the
negative for now, and press Return to
go to data entry.
The demo version of Prodata will
allow you to create databases with up
to twenty records, so there's plenty of
space to enter your favourite coverdisk
programs of the past six months or so.
At this stage, you should type in the rel-
evant details for the programs you
liked. As you fill each field, press Return
Field to. Field Label Data siring tonber of rtcorus selected
Prodofo'i info iWp con optofn a great d*al
X.F.I.
Author Tony Chcelham
Remember Tron. the sci-fi classic that
used uimpulrt qiaphi.s lot |u\l .ibout
everything7 Atlct its release, a flood ol
name* appeared based on the lilm's
moil exiling sequence, |ell Bndqes's
life ami death light -cycle chaw, all of
which gnppnl "w 'iai"c plavmq public
through Hie sheer addtctiveness Of
lion's iini|iiijl idea
Basically, rath competitor controls I
, y, le wlvi h leaves behind il a stream ol
lii|ti( as it Imm'K at m« the nieen I his
light stream aits as a solid wall, and if
collided with will destioy the cycle As
the game progresses, therelore,
manoeuvring space becomes more ami
more restricted until the player has
nowhere to go but mtn oblivion.
The qame has both one and two
player modes, so you can opt to cycle it
out with a Iriend il the computet proves
too tough lor you, which I guarantee il
will to begm with! Ihere are alvo a lew
extra ingredients lor the light cycle
tenpe, adding a touch ol spice to whal
has been pretty regular fare over the
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Hazardous scenery
Rather than race over an empty screen,
X I I adds a" «m teasing amount ol
walls and othei scenery as lh* levels
progress I he player ynnn Imds the
nerd to avoid hitting stationary ob|eih
I 'mi's more pressing than the desite
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UGA Fonts
to go to the next field, then Return and
Esc to finish the record.
To add the next record, either select
Add Record from the Edit menu, or
press A, and continue in this way until
you've filled out the database to your
satisfaction. It would be best to stick to
five records or so, as there is limited
space on the demo disk to save your
database, and this number is sufficient
lo demonstrate search functions and so
on.
When the fast record has been ere*
The font included on your coverdisk is a sample from UGA's PowerFonts disk,
containing ten fonts designed by Demo supremos such as Red Sector Inc. They
are all presented in the form of DPaint IFFs, from which you cut each letter as a
brush and paste it into your demo screen or message.
Square Font is just one of a huge number of excellent IFF fonts available for
demo use, but if you find it tasty enough and want some more, you'll have to
purchase a full disk from UGA or Softville PD. See the on disk documents for full
details.
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ated, press Return and Esc to exit
Create mode. You will find you can
now move back and forward through
your database, one record at a time,
using the cursor left-right arrow keys.
To jump directly to the first record,
press the control (Ctrl) key at the same
time as the left arrow, and to skip to
the end of your database, press Ctrl
with the right cursor arrow key.
Once you're happy going back and
forward through your database, it'*
time to carry out a Find operation Co
to the first record and select Find String
from the Edit menu or type F. A cursor
will appear in the strip at the bottom of
the screen into which you should type
the string you want to find.
Try the name of the program you
entered in the second last record, and
press Return. The disk will whizz as
Prodala looks through your records,
then the display should change to show
the record containing the string you
typed in. Prodata cannot search back-
wards, and will not continue on from
the beginning of the database, so all
searches should be started from record
number one.
Layouts
The default Prodata layout is an unin-
spiring sight, designed to make it easy
for the beginner to produce a straight-
forward list of records and get his or
her database off the starting line. You
can, however, make use of Prodata's
flexible layout editor to radically alter
the appearance of your records on
screen and in print.
There is a menu dedicated purefy to
How to use the Disk
First of all, you must make a back-up copy
of the coverdisk. To 00 this, boot up with
your copy ot Workbench, then double click
on the Workbemh drsk Icon, followed by
the Shell or CU Icon. Now type:
DISKCOPY FROM OfO: TO DFO:
or, II you have an extra disk dnve, put a
blank, lormatled disk In DFI : and type:
DISKCOPY FROM DFO: TO DFI
Follow the onscreen prompts until (he
copying procedure has ended, then put
your original disk away in a safe place. Now
iwitch off the machine and wait for 10 sec-
onds before rebooting with the copy. Watt
until the CoverDiskl 7 Icon appears, double
click on It and away you go.
That's all you need do to make a
straight copy o' the entire disk. However,
you may also want lo to copy individual
programs from your copy ot the coverdisk
(o a separate disk. In this case ensure that
you fully understand which related files
need to go with it.
For example, all ol ine document files
on the disk require that the tent editor
PPmore is In the current disk's C: directory
Therefore, it you copy the docs lo a new
disk you will also have to copy PPmore to
Ihe new C directory before you can read
them
Some of the smaller docs will not have
been crunched, so for these you need only
change the tool types on the icon's info
screen to reflect whichever text editor you
do have on the new disk.
As a general rule, you should carefully
cead the documentation for any program
you copy from disk to disk.
This can save a great deal of messing
about and can help you avoid all those
infuriating error messages!
Abiding death ion be Ihtki
there are "jump gates" which, when
driven into, transport you to the next
level without destroying the other
cycles. These can be very handy in a
tight spot, but can also be latal il you
are trapped into jumping to a level
whose layout is a mystery to you.
If you're feeling particularly
masochistic, you can change the game
speed by pressing keys 1 to S on the
top row of the keyboard. Speed 1 is the
slowest and the default value, and I
would recommend you stick to il until
you become a more expert cyclist. If
you want to die very quickly, speed S ts
available at a key press.
If this game gives you hall as much
fun as it's given us. you'll be well
CanDo Fixit
If you were surprised to find the
brushanims icon missing from
your de-archived CanDo demo
from last month's front cover,
how d'you think we fell?
The American suppliers,
INOVAtronics inadvertently
shipped us a CanDo demo with a
mistake in the archive that
becomes the ExtrasDisk. If you
still have the de-archived disks
you can repair the fault by using
the program you II find in this
month's coverdisk utilities drawer.
Make sure you have a backup
of the de-archived ExtrasDisk (the
second de-archived disk>, then
boot from the coverdisk, double
click on the disk icon, then the
Utilities Icon, then on the
FixCanDo icon. A script will be
executed which will copy the
missing files from the coverdisk to
your ExtrasDisk, which you should
then be able to make full use of.
Hunter III
Author. Neil Boffin and Martin Steven
If you bought our April Issue, you'll
already have seen Hunter II, which
was on that month's coverdlsk. We
decided to Include the latest ver-
sion because It has a couple of fea-
tures which make it a much better
all-round program - we think you'll
like Itl
Hunter Is a sample "ripper",
which means It will chew out the
bits of memory containing sound
samples, then save them to disk for
later use In your own programs or
MED/Soundtracker tunes. For this
to work, there must obviously be
some samples available to rip, and
there are several ways you can
ensure this.
Because of the nature of memory
chips, a warm reboot (holding
down CTRL-Amlga-Amlga) will not
flush their contents. This means
that If you play a PD demo or a
game, then carry out a warm
reboot, the samples used In the
game's or demo's music will usually
be preserved in memory.
Hunter can take advantage of
Palette
"jn if r i handy pakllr rtquater
the situation because it enables you
to "playback" the contents of your
computer's chip memory - where
all samples are stored - until from
among the hissing, crackling noises
you hear a sample you'd like to
keep. Once the sample has been
found, you can isolate It using
Hunter's Length and Start buttons
until you have determined Its exact
location, then save it to disk.
The Start button determines
where In memory the playback will
begin, and the length button sets
the amount of memory to be
played through. By the (udlclous
juggling of these two settings, it
should be possible to home in on
any sample present In your
machine's memory, as these will
stand out plain and clear from the
background garbage that is the
rest of your chip ram's contents.
tf this process seems a little over
complicated for your tastes, you
can make use of Hunter's very fast
search option. By clicking on one
of the two buttons under the word
Search, you can instruct Hunter to
go through all chip memory In
search either of an IFF sample or a
Soundtracker type module.
Neither Is perfect, and both will
often entirely miss a sample or
module. They are both very fast,
however, and It's a good Idea to
use them first, then resort to the
longer and more tedious process
of checking your memory piece by
piece If they don't work.
The warm reboot method is the
only way to rip samples from Inac-
cessible software such as games or
PD demos, but there are other
ways of finding samples. Hunter III
can load any sample, module, or
tune into memory using its Load
facility, then trawl through mem-
ory In the same way as before.
Hunter III offers several Improve-
ments over Hunter II. The most
useful from an Amos user's point
of view Is the facility to load Amos
sample banks for examination, or
to save samples as an Amos bank
ready for use in Amos programs.
This facility makes Hunter the
only choice of sample ripper for
Amos fans and represents a major
upgrade from vZ
The second major extra is
Hunter Ill's ability to load
PowerPacker data files, uncrunch
them, and search them for sam-
ples. It seems these days as If
everything has to be powerpacker
compatible, so universal has It
become as a cruncher, so Hunter's
new PowerPacker-friendly version
will ensure It isn't left out In the
cold.
As an added extra, there is a
palette control which you can
bring up by clicking the right
mouse button any time Hunter's
window is active. This Is designed
to complement the Workbench 2
look of the main panel, an effect
which can be unsuccessful if the
screen colours are wrong.
> layouts, but for the moment you need
only select Create New Layout, the last
in the list. When asked, call the layout
"flat", and press Return to go to the
layout editor.
You must now define the layout's
parameters. Most of these don't con-
cern us as the flat layout will be a fairly
simple example.
Type in the values shown in the box
on this page to create a layout with
records that appear as thin strips one
above the other.
Since we allow 999 records per
page, you can fit as many of your
records on one screen as possible, mak-
ing this sort of layout ideal for quickly
glancing through the database.
When you've typed in all of the
parameters, press Esc. The screen will
change to a graphical representation of
the layout, and field one will already be
onscreen ready to be positioned. It
needn't be moved as it's where we
want it, so press F to call up a list of
fields, and double click on field two.
The field will appear as a line of
dashes on the editor screen, and will be
highlighted to show that it is the cur-
rently selected field. We want to move
it to the right of field one on the same
line, so hold down the Shift key and use
PPLoadSeg
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the cursor keys to move the field across
and up until it is in the correct position.
Remember to leave a blank space
between the two fields.
If you now press Esc, the layout will
be saved to disk and your records will
appear onscreen in their new form.
Don't worry that only two fields are vis-
ible - the other two still exist To swap
layouts, choose "Select Layout" from
the layout menu or press L A list of the
available layouts will appear and you
can double click on the standard layout
if you want to see all the data again.
Now that you've grasped the basic
principles of layout creation, you can
go on to create address labels, book
record cards - the list is endless. To
master the full power of Prodala, how-
ever, you'll need more advice than we
can supply in these two pages, and for
that the only source is the Prodata
manual, available from Amor when you
buy the full version of the program!
PicSaver
Author: Preben Nielsen
PicSaver is a utility for saving screens
or parts of screens as IFF files for later
use in DPainl or any other Amiga art
package. For example, all the Virus
Checker windows grabbed for use in
this month's disk pages were grabbed
using PicSaver.
To run PicSaver, either click on its
icon, or run it from CU by typing
namr <ietm»>
The program will automatically
detach itself from the CLI to run in
the background.
Three way split
In use. PicSaver off en three ways to
save screens or parts of screens. All
three involve holding down the left
All-Shift-Ctrl keys at the same time.
To save a full screen, hold down Alt-
Shift-Ctrl and the S key and the
presently active screen will be saved
once you've typed its name and save
path into the file requester.
To save a window on its own,
ensure that the desired window is
active by clicking in it, then hold
down Alt-Shift-Ctrl-W to bring up
another save requester.
The third method involves holding
down Alt-Shift-Ctrl with no other
keys. A cross-hair will then appear on
your mouse arrow, which you can use
to cut out a portion of the screen in
exactly the same way you'd cut out a
brush in DPaint Click with the left
mouse button and drag the cross-
hairs until you've outlined the target
area, then release the button and
type your path and filename into the
requester as normal.
To remove PicSaver, either run it
again, or press Alt-Shrft-Clrl-Esc
The recent outbreak ol the Saddam file
virus, a particularly nasty piece ol work,
prompted us to cast around (or a good
general purpose killer capable of deal-
ing with the latest menaces. Virus
Checker was the obvious choice.
Installation
You can run the program by clicking on
its icon once Workbench has loaded,
but by far the most efficient way to use
it is to include it in the startup sequence
of your hard drive or the distc from
which you normally boot your system.
If you continually reboot with different
system disks, it's a good idea to put
Virus Checker on its own disk and use it
after each reboot
To do this, take a blank, formatted
disk, install a standard boot block using
the command:
UJTI.LL DRIVE IfO: <UMI>
then copy the program across to it
from the coverdisk. You can do this by
dragging the icons across on
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NW-STWMI boot cur
It can Itom any numbrt of boot block virion
Workbench, or by using the COPY
command.
If you have two drives, boot from
the coverdisk and place the blank disk
in your external drive. Next, click in the
CU window left open at the bottom ot
the coverdisk main screen and type:
COPT UTILITIES/VIRUS_CHECKEI TO DM: ALL
<UTM>
The entire Virus Checker directory will
be copied to the extra drive, and you
should be able to run it at any time by
typing:
DFimRUS.MEKEI <1ETUII>
If you have a single drive, your best bet
would be to load Virus Checker into ram
at the start of the day, tf using a word-
processor, for example, you could then
check each dala disk before saving pre-
cious documents to it. To copy the pro-
gram to another disk using a single
Virus Checker
Author: John Veldthuii
drive, activate the CU window on the
covecdisk's Workbench screen, and type:
COPt COP! TO IAN: <1ET0I»
COPT C» TO III: <tOMft>
COPT WtlLlTKS'VlIUI.CHECCtA TO 111: ALL
<IET01I>
CB IAD: <IETUH>
Now insert the blank disk onto which
Virus Checker is to be copied, and type:
COPT IAH:IT TO DFO: <IETUM>
If in future you need to use the pro-
gram to check a number of disks, or
would just like it close at hand, rename
the disk as VIRUSCHECKER (no spaces),
and type:
COPT VIIHCKCIU:!? TO lAd: <IETNI>
You can now run Virus Checker by typ-
ing:
lAltVllUI.CMECIEl <IETUU>
at any time.
Using Virus Checker
When activated, Virus Checker first
checks memory for known viruses or
suspicious vectors, and removes or dis-
ables those found.
The program next checks all floppy
drives for known boot block viruses and
alerts the user to their presence. At this
stage, you have the option to display,
ignore, or remove the virus.
Displaying the boot block will give
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you a chance to gaze at a load of
machine code which sometimes con-
tains Ascii text from the coders of the
virus. This can be of help of you're try-
ing to decide whether a dodgy boot
block is a virus or simply a custom
block.
If the boot code displayed by Virus
Checker includes a stupid message
from the dork who wrote the virus, you
can rest assured of its identity.
Otherwise, the display function is just a
handy aid to nosy people like you and
me. If the boot block is a new or
unknown factor, a fourth option
appears enabling a "learning" function.
This adds the boot block to Virus
Checker's "brain file", a sort of ID
parade for boot blocks. Once a boot
block is added to the brain file, Virus
Checker will cease to alert you to its
presence, saving loads of hassle if you
have a lot of PD disks with message-
style boot blocks.
Digital Scuds
As a last ditch defence against the
Saddam virus, John Veldthuis has sup-
plied the computer equivalent of the
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A icon for Xtno can wvr a lot of htartoche
Patriot missile system in the shape of
his FixSaddam program. The program
is designed to be used on disks already
Infected by Saddam and, when run,
attempts to repair any damage inflicted
by the virus.
There is no cure for disks which have
been completely kippered by Saddam,
but the virus will alter some blocks
when it first infects a disk, and it is this
damage that FixSaddam is intended to
repair. To check a disk, put it in one ot
your drives, say DFO:, and type:
ftiSaddai MO: <IETUII>
The program will then cycle through all
tracks on the disk, and will inform you
when it finds Saddamised blocks.
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It you have ever used an Amiga
application that opens a high res-
olution or interlace screen, you
wtH have noticed the rather awful inter-
lace dicker that afflicts these screen
modes. If you use Desktop publishing
or Computer Aided Design (CAD) you
will probably find that high resolution
screens are essential, and you have to
find a way to reduce the flicker.
There are several ways in which you
can reduce the flicker on a television or
standard monitor, such as the Philips
CM8833 or the Commodore 1084. You
can reduce the brightness level on the
monitor, change the colours, buy an
anti-glare screen filter or even wear
sun-glasses. None of these methods will
completely remove the flicker - they
will just cut the levels down.
De-interlacers
II you have decided once and for all
that the flicker must go no matter what
the cost is, then you have only one
option - buy a multisync monitor.
Depending on what machine you are
using you will probably need to buy a
de-intenacer card as well. This converts
the video output from the Amiga into a
stable non-interlaced output that the
multisync can display.
II you own an Amiga 500 there is
only one de-interlacer currently avail-
able (or you - the ICD Flicker Free
Video board. This board plugs inside
your Amiga 500 invalidating your war-
ranty, and will probably not fit if you
have accelerators or other internal hard-
ware added. Once installed, a ribbon
cable with a 9-pin monitor connector
hangs out of the back of your machine.
To this you can attach a multisync
monitor.
If you want to play games, or work
in low or medium resolution you will
find that fast moving objects, like your
mouse pointer, or anything that moves
4^4 9-pin monitor
connector hangs
out of the back of
your machine ^
Does your telly or monitor flicker?
Do your eyes update your brain 50
times a second? Maybe it's time you
looked at flicker-free displays.
jolyon Ralph has the details...
in games, will blur to the
point lhat a lot of games are
totally unplayable. The only
solution to this is to use a
monitor connected to the
standard Amiga output for
these modes, either your
original television or
medium-resolution moni-
tor, or your new multisync
with an adaptor cable
Video slot
The Amiga 1500 and 2000
provide a special video slot
which allows easy installation
of a de-interlacer card. There
are two such cards available -
the original Microway Flicker
Fixer, a tried and tested design, and
the Commodore A232Q card.
The Microway card has been
around for a couple of years now and
was, until they released their own card,
strongly recommended by
Commodore. It fits neatly into the
video slot with a 9-pin monitor output
Most modern multisyncs have 15-pm
outputs rather than 9-pin. so you may
need an adaptor to plug your monitor
in.
Like the ICD board, it does not han-
dle low or medium resolution very well,
leaving you to either run two monitors
or wire up a cable allowing you to
switch between the Flicker Fixer and
the standard 23-way output. The
Microway card, unlike the ICD and
Commodore card, is not compatible
with the new ECS screen modes.
The Commodore A2320 card uses
the same de-interlace circuitry that is
found in the Amiga 3000 which unlike
the Microway and the ICD products, is
intelligent. It will de-interlace all high
resolution and interlace screens, but
will double-scan low and medium reso-
lutions screens.
This means that not only is the
image free from blurring, but the thin
black scanlines found on ordinary mon-
itors have been removed. The result is a
clean and sharp image, although it
does make low resolution in particular
seem rather blacky. It is certainly better
than having to put up with two moni-
tors or a switch box.
Switched off
If you don't like the blocky low res or
for some bizarre reason you want to
return to the flickery interlace, there is a
disable switch on the card which will
give you a standard Amiga image.
The Amiga 3000 does not need a
de-interlacer. for it has an excellent
de-interlacer built in to the machine.
Any standard multisync monitor,
including those listed below, will give a
stable image in hi res.
There are a wide vanety of multisync
and similar monitors available which
will work with the Amiga. Some of
them will only work with the
flicker-fixer installed and actrve. others
will also wort with the standard Amiga
output, or with the
Commodore A2320 card in
all back mode. For PAL
machines the monitor
must be capable of 50Hz
vertical frequency opera-
tion, which unfortunately
rules out most cheap VGA
monitors.
Monitors
When looking for a moni-
tor there are a few things
which you must take into
consideration.
Firstly, it must be
capable of a 50Hz verti-
cal sync frequency - as opposed
to a 50Hz power supply fre-
quency, which it must handle if sold
in the UK. Otherwise your Amiga
picture will continually roll around
the screen with no way of stopping it.
Some monitors are capable of a
50Hz display despite it not being men-
tioned in the technical specifications.
Also, it you want to use it with the stan-
dard Amiga output - either direct from
the Amiga's 23-pin video port or by
switching off the A2320 card - the
monitor must be capable of a ISKHz
horizontal sync frequency. Most larger
monitors cannot handle this,
The second thing to check for is the
screen quality. This is, of course, a com-
plex thing to measure. Watch for the
dot pitch - this is the distance between
each group of red, green and blue dots *
What is flicker?
Interlace Bicker is unavoidable when using the Amiga with a television or a cheap
colour monitor This is because a single high-resolution Kwn cannot be fully
displayed in a single vtdeo frame (1/50 second). To output the full display
requires two passe* The first frame displays all the odd-numbered lines,
1 ..3..S.7..9.. and so on, and the second frame draws in the even-numbered lines
to fill the gaps. However, because of the time delay in drawing the second
screen, the phosphorous screen has already started to fade, and it it this drfltr-
ence in brightness levels between the odd frame and the even frame lhat causes
U>r (Inker
What is a multisync?
Televisions and normal monitors operale on a fixed frequency The frequency is
described in two components: the vertical Ireqoency. wh.ch b the number ot
frames displayed per second, and the honzontal frequency. whKh ,s the number
of horizontal lines displayed per second.
Standard PAL televisions have a vertical frequency of 50Hz and a horizontal
frequency of around 15.5KHz. The Amiga output is identical to this, to allow the
Amiga to display all video modes on the same monitor - unlike the Atan ST. With
these (ixed values, the number of lines that can be displayed in one frame .s lim-
ited to around 300
A multisync monitor can accept a w,de range of vertical and honzontal fre-
quencies, typically 50Hz to 70Hz vertical and 15.5KHz to 35KHz honzontal.
A quick calculation reveals that by doubling the standard Amiga honzontal fre-
quency, we can get all 512 lines of our h.-res display in one frame, resulting in
no Ibcker. De-interlacer cards work by providing an output at these Irequencies
I that the multisync can display.
on the
screen sur-
face. The
lower the dot
pitch, the higher
the screen quality.
This can range from
0.39mm on bad monitors to 0.21mm
on the most expensive screens. Some
screens have anti-glare coatings to cut
back reflected light, others have low
radiation screens which are said to be
safer to use, particularly for pregnant
women.
Taxan sell a wide range of monitors
that are compatible with the Amiga,
from 14in models up to 20in monsters.
Options
The Taxan Multivision 770 Plus LR is
probably the most popular of these. It
works fine with both standard Amiga
output and de-interlaced output It is a
Min monitor with an excellent
anti-glare tube. The dot pitch is
0.31mm, which is average for these
monitors, but not excellent. This moni-
tor has the distinction of being one of
the lirst low-radiation colour monitors
around which are so safe that even the
Swedes use them. Apparently.
Less healthy, but with a bigger
screen, is the Taxan Multivision 970
with its 20" display and 0.31mm dot
pilch. This monitor has a medium-per-
sistence display, which means that
interlace is cut down considerably even
without a de-inlerlacer, because the
phosphor coating on the screen fades
more slowly than normal screens.
If you want the best in quality
screens, the Tafcan Multivision 795 pro-
vides an amazing 0.26mm dot pitch on
a 1 4" screen. Unlike the other two Taxan
monitors mentioned here, it does not
4 Monitors which
are so safe that
even the Swedes
use them ^
support
standard Amiga
15.5K.Hz signals,
so it will not work without a
de-interlacer, or if it is turned off.
Other popular monitors are the AOC
range. There are two very similar mod-
els being sold, the CM-325 and the
CM-326. The CM-325 is a Super-VCA
monitor rather than a multisync. The
difference with Super-VCA monitors is
that rather than working over a wide
band of frequencies, they can automati-
cally switch between a few preset fre-
quencies.
These monitors are often consider-
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ably cheaper than multisyncs, although
not all Super-VCA displays will work
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work with the new ECS display modes
or with the de-interiacer turned off.
The CM-326 is a true multisync and
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tube. The CM-326 comes with both
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any of the three boards available,
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tor cable if you want to run the monitor
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My personal favourite for price and
features - although I can't afford one at
the moment - is the Panasonic
TX-1703MA. It has a Sony Trinitron
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pitch. Although it cannot cope with
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The screen display is simply excellent
- it is big enough to allow you to use a
large display with small fonts and still
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your neck constantly turning your head
to view both sides of it. It also has two
sets of inputs, which is useful if you
have two or more computers.
Flexible
II you have more than one computer,
multisync monitors can prove a worth-
while investment. One monitor can
work not only on the Amiga, but on
PC's (with VGA, Super-VCA or above
graphics), Apple Macintosh II, Atari ST
and almost every other type of com-
puter you can think of.
If you have an Amiga bridgeboard
you can forget the crummy slow CCA
graphics - add a VGA or Super-VGA
board into your system and plug your
multisync directly into the bridgeboard
for the best possible PC graphics.
Monitors with two or more sets of
inputs will allow you to wire up the
bridgeboard and your Amiga directly lo
the monitor and switch between them
giving you the best combination of
Amiga and PC graphics >
you can have in one
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1 Mb RAM £58.00 2Mb RAM
4Mb RAM £248.00 8Mb RAM
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£116.00
£496.00
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as used in recording studios
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AMIGA 500
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has capabilities for the latest In video tilling and digitising, high quality animations, most
general application software and has the possibility of being easily converted to a compatible
PC . XT or AT. Most small to medium sized companies can be easily administered on this
machine. NOTE - All of Diamond's press advertising is produced on an Amiga 1 500.
AMIGA 3000
The Ultimate machine for the serious user, again as well as offering everything from the
other two machines it also runs Commodore's new multi-tasking operating system
Workbench 2.0. flicker free graphics on- screen as standard. There is even a Unix option for
this machine. It runs at 25MHz on a 32bit processor andl undoubtedly sets the standard tor
professional use for the 1990's
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lor only
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£699.00
£899.00
£999.00
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XT Bridgeboard
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A2000 base machine £469.00
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IVS TRUMPCARDS
The IVS Trumpcard Is the top selling SCSI hard drive
controller. Representing the latest in technology directly
from the USA. it is the only controller to support IBM, Amiga
and Apple MAC partitions on one hard disk. This allows
you to run software for the three main hardware platforms
on one machine. Only one computer can do this
PHILIPS MONITOR
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inc. dust cover and lead
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IMPULSE FUJITSU
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JOYSTICKS
£23.95 Prot 9000 dejuxe
£29.99
£12.25
Navigalo
Afiicl'S
'£14.99
£9.99
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The Arcade Turbo
£11.95
E23.9S
Gunshol
£5.00
Cheetah 125*
£5.00
£18.99
/£1021
Challenger
£34.95
FLICKER FIXER
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use the Flicker Fixer Video Card
EXTERNAL DRIVE
3,5" external dove £54.95
HIGH RES
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Multisync Monitor £349.00
SOFTWARE
Pro Page 2.0
£169.95
Pro Video Post
£149.00
Propage Templates £34.95
Propage ClipArt
£34.95
Pro Write
£85.00
Sculpt Animate 4D
£279.00
Broadcast Titter II
£17900
X CAD Designer
£69.33
X CAD professional £229.00
Deluxe Paint III
£34,95
Oigiview Gold 4
£88.13
Plxmate
£35.00
Vista
£49.00
Distant Suns
£36 00
Pen Pal
£81.00
Cross DOS
£25.00
Devpac Amiga
£45.00
Hisoft BASIC
£55.00
Lattice C V5.0
£149.00
£34.00
Lattice C*+
Pro Draw
£250.00
Hisoft Pro Flight
£81.00
Quarter Back
£35.00
Videotitler
£100.00
Turbo Silver
£100.00
Director 2.0
PO. A
Photon Paint II
£23.50
Bars & Pipes
£120.00
Excellence
£89.95
Pagesetter 2.0
£44,96
Pagestream 2.1
£129.95
Pro Write 3.1
£88.95
Quick Write
£34.95
Scribble Platinum
£34.95
T tans write
£27.95
Platinum Works
£68.95
Home Office Kit
£69.95
Superbase Pro 4
£116-50
Hyperbook
£34.95
Wordworth
£85.00
AMIGA BOOKS
AMIGA For Beginners £12.99
3D Graphics programming £18.99
Machine Language £14.99
Systems programs guide £32.99
DOS inside* Out £18.99
C for advanced programmers £32.99
Graphics Inside & Out £32.99
♦ Many others for Christmas
AMIGA MADE EASY Video
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E149.CH
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GVP COMBO board. The SCSI hard disk
controller with built in 68030 accelerator and
RAM expansion capability.
22MH? Combo with t Mb RAM £799.00
33MHz Combo with 41Mb RAM £1*95.00
40 Mb SCSI hard disk £249.00
1 1 4 Mb SCSI hard disk £449.00
GVP Series 2 RAM Card comes with 2Mb
RAM as standard.
2Mb £200.00 4Mb £275.00 BMb £345.00
GVP Series 2 RAM Card
Bareboard £209.00
40Mb £369.00
52Mb Quantum 1 1ms E429.00
1 1 4Mb NEC 20ms £ 549.00
ICD Adspeed
ICD FFF 0, VGA Monitor
AT-Once
(2000 version also available)
£175.00 ICD Flicker Free video
£499.00 KCS PC Power board
£169 00
£199.00
£?W.0O
£235.00
ICD
FLICKER FIXER
POA
600 Mb
Hard Disk
P.O.A.
NEXUS COMBO'S
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up to 8Mb of on board RAM
Bareboard £199.00
52Mb Quantum 11ms £425.00
114Mb NEC 20ms £689.00
GENLOCKS
Rendale
02
£149 00
£57500
20Mb Disk
Drive
P.O.A.
Obviously, when you carry as much stock as
DIAMOND, you can't advertise all your spares;
but contact your local branch and we guarantee
you won't find the part that you're looking for at
a better price.
ALL PRICES INCLUDE VAT
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THE VISION OF THE FUTURE^ IS NOW THE PRESENT
AT DIAMOND
C.D.T.V. £599.00
EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN THE WAY THEY WANT TO BE EDUCATED, WHILST BEING THE ENVY
OF ALL YOUR FRIENDS, WITH A NEW DIMENSION IN SOUND AND GRAPHICS FOR YOUR HOME.
So what is C.D.T.V. ? Are you confused by all the hype?
If you are , then why not pop into your local Diamond branch for a full working demonstration of
this exciting new medium and have all the answers to all of your questions translated by experts
from unneccessary gobledegook into plain easy to understand English.
GREAT PART EXCHANGE OFFERS
You will be surprised at just how generous Mr Diamond will be
when you trade in your old Amiga 500 for a C.D.T.V.
C.D.T.V. ROM, normally £599.00. only £349.00 when you P/X your old Amiga 500
External Amiga A500 ROM Player ONLY £399.00
All Dogs Go To Heaven Electnc Crayon
EM N
Hutchisons Encyclopeadla
£49.99
Classic Boa/O Games
£34.99
Time TaMa ol Sconce & Innovalion
£39.99
Piycho Killer
EM M
Time Table ot Business Politics
£39.98
WtbOi ol me Demon
CM 99
Dr. Wellman
£54.99
Case ot me Cautious Condor
BUI
The New Basics Electric Cook Book
E3B.99
Batllestorm
EM M
World Visia Atlas
£54.99
Sim City
(MM
Amancan Heritage Dictionary
£49.99
De*ende» o* the Crown
BUI
Complete Works o< Shakespeare
£34.99
Lemmings
CM 9fl
Illustrated Holy nr..
C34.99
Xenon II : Meg ablest
£39.99
Illustrated 5hekxk Holmes
£24.97
inCoo' Soots
C2999
Amencan Vista
£47,97
Many Roaoft to Murder
EMM
Moving Stomach Acne
C36B7
Snoopy
£29 89
Hound 0> BasKervllle
£24.97
Spirit ol EicallDu'
1 J j N
AnmaM In Mown
£36 47
Horse Racing
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Sign ol Fa*
£36.47
Nlnja Highschool Comli
£1699
A Study m Scan*
C36 47
Dinosaurs for Hire
£16.99
Emergency Languages
£26.47
Baskerball
Bfl M
Prelvstonc
£39.97
Battlechess
E44 N
Terminator
£27.47
Road To Final Four
£34.97
B.v -»y Bc-a- O&es to Schoci
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Fun School 3 (for under S's)
£29.99
Po*e* Plndan'
£24.97
My Paint
£24.99
CD Remn
£24.97
A Bun lor Barney
£39.99
Falcon 21
£47.97
M-nd Run
£39.99
Super Games Pack
£19.98
Thomas s Snowsurt
£34.99
Space Wars'
£19.97
Scary Poems tor Rotten Kids
£39.99
Chaos m Andromeda 1
£26.47
Paper Bag Pr-neess
£34.99
Town With No Name!
£26.47
The Tales ol Peter RaDbrl
£39.99
Team Yankee
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Mud Puddle
£34.99
Murder Made Strange1
£24. 9B
LTV English
£34.99
Benjamin Bunny I
Rawest
Barney Bear Camping'
Cinderella!
Long Hard Day Ranchl
Haathat Hits Home Run1
Indoor Plants
Women m Motion
Animated Colouring Book
Advance Military Systems Series
Garden Plants
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Fnrfs . Vegetables and Herbs
Music M.i«"r
£3197
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£19.90
£26.97
£36 96
£2697
£29.99
£34 99
£34.99
C29.99
£34.99
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Fantasy World of Dizzy, Star Blaze, .star Ray, Terra Quester, Jupiter Probe, Bombuzzal. Days of Thunder, Dark Castle,
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ONLY SOMEONE AS WONDERFUL AS MR DIAMOND CAN OFFER YOU THE LATEST TOP SELLING TITLES AT
UP TO 1/2 PRICE, JUST CHECK THE PRICES BELOW
Lemmings only £14.95, Bart Simpson only £9.95, Captain Planet only £9.95. Deluxe Paint III only £34.95
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1.0Mb £35.25
2.0Mb £69.00
A590 2Mb Populated £328.00
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4Mb t£1 37.50
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STAR LC200 COLOUR
£189.00
CITIZEN 1240
£190.00
OKIDATA LASER 400
£704.00
PHILIPS MNS1432
£116.00
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£187.00
OKIMATE 20
£153.00
STAR LC MONO
£140.00
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£34.95
DigiView Gold 4.0
£88.13
Deluxe Video III £67.95
Digipaint III
£54.75
Rom bo Vidi
£79.95
Amiga Vision £69,95
Photon Paint II
£23.50
Disney Animation
Art Department £49.95
Sprite
£3.50
Studio
£82.25
ArtDeptPro £124.95
Icon Paint
£3.50
Art Dept Pro
Comic Setter
£23.50
Video Studio
£116.50
conversion Kit £59.95
Can Do
£49.95
Hyperbook
£39.95
Deluxe PhotoLab £49.95
Elan Performer 2 £74.95
T.V. Show
£48.95
Scene Generator £27.95
Scala Fonts £169.95 |
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MusicX ver 1.1 £59.00
Perfect Sound £39.00
Audio Engineer £149.00
MasterSound £25.00
Quartet £33.00
MIDI l/F £24.95
Keyboard £25.00
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Tie Amiga is already the primary
nachine in the world of desk-
:op video, with countless titlers
and all manner of Amiga generated
images finding their way in to both
amateur and commercial productions.
However, up until now the Amiga's
role has been merely that of a special
effects engine, only called upon to add
finishing touches such as animations,
titles and of course glamour where live
action is concerned.
Now fortunately for both the
machine and it's videophile owners,
that's all about to change and the once
humble extension to the average video
workstation may soon become its heart.
VideoPilot is one of three systems
presently leading the field in Amiga
controlled editing, and over the next
few months we plan lo explore all the
available options and give the definitive
guide to the Amiga in the movies.
Obvious advantages
Anyone who's tried video editing the
old fashioned way won't waste any
time extolling the virtues of computer
controlled editing. The endless piles of
scrap paper, worn out stopwatches and
an expression that only being up till
four in the morning can provide, are
sure signs of the video editing old
guard.
The basic principle of any editing
system is to help keep track of hun-
dreds of scenes spread throughout your
library of unedited tapes, to arrange
them as required, then to accurately
assemble the desired shots in a user
defined order, all with squeaky clean
edits making seamless connections.
To achieve this, the various master
tapes need lo be either timecoded or
controlled via their tape counters. The
timecode option Is by far the most pre-
cise of the two and boasts an accuracy
of +/- one frame, which is as good as
any system can offer.
The tape counter alternative isn't
anything like as accurate but is still
capable of between 5 and 10 frame
precision over a period of around IS
minutes. If you're working with longer
tapes, the software can divide the
footage up in order to keep timing
within tolerable limits.
What's in the box?
Like many dedicated Amiga applica-
tions, VideoPilot is a combination of
both hardware and software - the hard-
ware element of the equation being a
multiple input timecode read/write unit
that synchronises three source players
whkh then write to a fourth mastering
machine.
The various machines can be a mix-
ture of VCR's and camcorders, all of
which are controlled by either infra red
or hardwire remote control.
Along with the black box, you
receive a pair of infra red rodents which
connect to the VideoPilot and issue
commands to the players by taking
over the role previously undertaken by
their own remotes. Also included is the
control software, connections and of
course the ever-present manual.
The learning process
Perhaps VideoPilot's greatest strength is
its versatility and willingness to learn
how to control the ever-changing vari-
ety of available VCR's and camcorders.
It's the afore-mentioned infra red
rodents which provide this power, due
to their ability to be taught how to con-
trol unfamiliar machines. This is done
by aiming the VCR's own infra red con-
trollers at VideoPilot's surrogate units
which then learn the required com-
mands to operate the transport on the
machine.
This process is done a matter of
moments in one of VideoPilot's embar-
rassingly friendly option screens,
which in this
case asks you \ A
to press a func- \
tion key for the , j*^^
appropriate O
video control, at , ■
which point a l 1
bleep sounds \
prompting you to
hit the corre- t-^-"
sponding button on the VCR's own
remote.
After all the commands are com-
plete, the Amiga assumes full control of
the VCR from the comfort of the func-
tion keys. Amazing...
Having explained this impressive tal-
ent it's perhaps unlikely that you'll need
to try it for yourself - there are a multi-
tude of pre-defined configurations
already programmed into the software
and even if you do need to define com-
mands they can be stored on disk and
loaded with the rest when necessary.
Second only to VideoPilot's flexibility
is its easy of use, which for a program
and hardware combination of such
UIDEOPILOT PRE EDIT CHECKLIST
HELCDME TQ THE UIDEOPILOT SYSTEM
1) CHECK UIDEOPILOT IS CONNECTED TO THE AMIGA UIA THE SERIAL PORT
B) CHECK THE DUTPUT OF THE RECORDER IS CONNECTED TO THE TO
RHD THE TU IS TUNED TO THE UIDEO SIGNRL
3) CHECK THE PLRYER<S) HHD RECORDER HRE CONNECTED TOGETHER
CORRECTLY THIS CRH BE VERIFIED B* PLRYIHG ERCH MRCH1HE
m TURH RHD CHECKING RH IMAGE IS SEEN ON THE TU
H) CHECK THE UIOEOPILOT CONTROLS THE RECORDER UIR
THE FUNCTIOH KEYS
5) CHECK THE UIDEOPILOT CONTROLS THE PLRYERtSi UIA
THE FUNCTION KEYS
6> IF CASSETTES ARE TO BE TIMECODED CHECK THHT PLAYER RIGHT
AUDIO IN IS CONNECTED TO UIDEOPILOT TIMECODE OUT
NEXT PRGE
URLIDRTE
A prime example of VideoPilot's helping hand apptoath to editin
movies
Paul Austin takes the controls of perhaps the
most flexible DTV editing system around.
complexity is a rare thing indeed. All
the various screens lead you by the
hand with large icons and wiring con-
figurations all appearing onscreen.
This makes the correct connections
in the real world as simple as possible.
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U'UU'UU uu
F9
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TEST RLL PC FUNCTIOH KEYS CDMTF.OL
THE CORRESPONDING FUNCTION;
BEFORE BEGINNING EDIT
Vour chance lo try Ihe canUolt of your video, via the function keyi
The entire process of configuring and
operating the system is done with the
rodent, with the only exception being
the operation of the video controls
which, as mentioned earlier, is done
with (he function keys.
A prime example of this process in
action is the configuration screen which
displays the rear of the V3I0 or
VideoPilot if you prefer, and four selec-
tion boxes for the various players and
the recorder.
Configuring the system is simply a
matter of clicking on the appropriate
input on the V310. then on the player
in question. If your selection is incorrect
the software throws up a warning and
suggest what could be the problem.
To select a player simply requires
clicking in one of the four available
boxes until the correct make, timecode
and control method appears.
If your particular player isn't avail-
able you can add the necessary details
followed by a trip to the programming
screen to teach the infra red unit the
correct controls.
When all's well with the system you
can timecode the tape and begin to
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Timecode trickery
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Setting up your jyilrm. mode eaty thanki lo the toolptool configuration urttt)
ilot
th the Amiga...
construct your masterpiece, with the
aid of the onscreen Edit table. This
allows old and new scripts to be
chopped and changed as required,
with wordprocessor style cut and paste
operations.
Effects can be added at various
points, such as captions, still frames,
crossfades and genlock effects which
when necessary cause the software to
emit a warning bleep, allowing you to
operate the desired effect at the appro-
priate moment.
The inertia of the record machine
can also be adjusted to ensure accurate
edits and up lo eight tapes can be used
in the various machines during assem-
bly. Once again, a warning bleep is
sounded when the necessary changes
are required.
All the shot selections are done via
the function keys, with fine-tuning
being achieved via single frame
advance or, if complete accuracy is
required, through'the Edit table.
Conclusion
In general, VideoPilot is excellent, and H
you're a video nut it may even be worth
the asking price, for the professional
who wants to free valuable time for
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Perhaps the biggest stumbling block
in both the Amiga and video worlds is
the seemingly endless supply of
incompatible timecodes which are
unsuccessfully vying for dominance.
In the professional market this
problem has long been resolved
thanks to SMPTE timecode which has
been the industry standard in TV and
film for years.
In music SMPTE also plays an occa-
sional role 3long with MTC but unfor-
tunately video Is a minefield of
formats and VideoPilot docs its bit to
add to the confusion by employing its
own propnetary code entitled V3TC.
This, of course, isn't compatible with
either VITC or SMPTE systems but
does work with RCTC or "artic" as ifs
known and pronounced.
This happy coincidence is both
great news for VideoPilot and Sony
who are employing this new format
for use with 8mm camcorders. The
big advantage of the new system is its
ability to retain a full stereo sound-
track without the need for any modifi-
cations to the VCR.
Because VideoPilot reads this new
format frame accurately it can be
edited direct, something which Sony's
own RCTC editing system has not yet
mastered. So for the moment if you're
the proud owner of Sony's CCD-V800
camcorder, VideoPilot could be the
perfect choice.
Like everything else, the addition of
a timecode can be a case of swings
and roundabouts, due to the sacrifice
more work and less editing It could
soon pay for its place in your system.
After all, once the shot selection is
complete and providing there are no
tapes to be change, the system can be
left to compile your creation all on its
lonesome.
My only criticism concerns the limit
of two infra reds which could cause
problems on some systems, although of
course four hardwire inputs are
available for the remaining players.
The only other disappointment is the
inability to see your edits prior to mas-
tering.
Having had my little moan, both fac-
tors are more molehills than mountains
and don't do any real harm to what is
an very impressive product.
VideoPilot Is available from:
EMR Video
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Tel: 0451 810185
Price; £850 VideoPilot
£50 for extra Infra red
£75 for Multiplexor
£10 AB roll switch box
of one of the available audio tracks for
timecode information.
If you're working with hi-fi
VHS/S-VHS or 8mm units employing
PCM sound, it will inevitably mean
that you'll be left with a mono sound-
track. You could always combine the
sound from both tracks but of course
the actual stereo effect would be sacri-
ficed anyway.
On non-stereo VCR's and cam-
corders adding a timecode will com-
pletely obliterate any available sound,
so dubbing to a hi-fi machine might
well be worth the loss in quality.
Enhancements
E.M.R., the UK distributors of
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mono PCM for timecode.
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put sockets modified to keep the origi-
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Well, what will they think of
next? First we had
sequence dancing, fol-
lowed by synchronised swimming and
of course sequenced music. Now Cold
Disks have gone the whole hog and
produced the Amiga's first multimedia
sequencing package which claims to
control every aspect of the machine's
>ast array of talents - all from one user
fnendly interface.
If you're anything like me, at first
you'll probably be a little confused as to
what a multimedia video sequencer
actually does, how it does it, and why
you'd want it to do it in the first place.
Well to clear the air I teet a short expla-
nation is in order.
ShowMaker's primary mission is to
draw together all the Amiga's talents
and apply them in one smooth and
perfectly sequenced production. To do
this it employs the Timeline which Is
the window at the very heart of
ShowMaker.
The Timeline is an event display win-
dow which shows all the elements
within a production plus their duration,
type and position within the creation.
The unusual thing about what Is in
effect a fairly standard sequencer is its
ability to control a whole range of
events, whether they be external
video sources, internal sound effects,
musical backing tracks or, of course,
animation.
Track talk
Before we defve into the various ins and
outs of the system, a quick look a just
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Sit back and relax as Paul Austin reveals all
with the assistance of ShowMaker, the
latest star on the video sequencing stage
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Another view al thr timeline in Hi data Hit format
what ShowMaker is capable of might
whet your appetite.
When you first enter the program,
you are offered the default number of
1 2 tracks to play with, these being the
primary Amiga based internal tracks
which control the machine-generated
side of the production.
Moving pictures
The first of the 1 2 is the graphics track
which allows you to generate either still
frames or animations. These appear as a
background on to which titles or effects
can be overlaid. The various back-
grounds can be produced on any stan-
dard Amiga paint package, as either
standard IFFs or ham images.
If for example you want a still image,
it can be introduced with a variety of
wipes and fades. It will then remain
onscreen for as long as is specified by
the Timeline, only being replaced by
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the next wipe or fade as the following
animation or still is introduced.
It is perhaps best to think of the pro-
cess as a form of video music with vari-
ous elements playing for a set time and
then being replaced by the next section
of the song. So you might have a video
verse in the form of an animation, then
a series of stills for a chorus, another
smaller animation for a middle eight
and finally back to the verse.
To keep everything smooth and
stylish, animations can be set to loop
indefinitely. This ensures that there
won't be any problems if your anima-
tion runs for five seconds and the par-
ticular sequence requires 15 - the soft-
ware will cycle the animation until the
next section of the production.
The frame rate of animations can
also be defined so that it will fit the
pace of the production. And if you're
after a really slick effect, graphics can
be defined to keep time with the back-
ing music - as indeed can the entire
production - so not only will anima-
tions fit perfectly, but wipes and fades
will occur on the beat to give a punchy,
professional feel.
Tricky titling
The next track controls ShowMaker's
internal tiding software, and to be hon-
est this is the only element which
doesn't score well. The problem here is
that the designers have bitten off a tittle
more than the Amiga can chew, by
designing a titler which attempts to do
things which even dedicated titling
packages such as Scala and Broadcast
Titler 2 don't attempt - namely
scrolling over an animated background.
This would be a tricky enough
proposition if the machine had nothing
else to consider, but when the basic
problems are compounded with the
need to sequence genlocks, videos,
Midi, ARexx and soon NewTek's video
toaster, not to mention the remaining
nine internal Amiga tracks, it's little
wonder that the scrolling is less than
silky smooth.
To be fair, for the average amateur
the variety of wipes and fades might
well make up for the rather stuttered
scrolling, but for a professional, titling
would have to be done by another
method, such as being included within
animation.
If you do decide to use the titler
option there are numerous goodies
thrown in, such as access to your entire
font directory plus those present within
the software itself, all of which can be
presented in the usual array of bold,
italic and underlined combinations.
There's also a range of drop shadow
effects and numerous outlines. In short,
if you keep things simple, reasonable
effects are possible, if perhaps a little
less than spectacular.
Special FX
The next four tracks all control good
old Paula, the Amiga's internal sound
chip. Each of the four available chan-
nels have their own track, onto which
any IFF sample can be assigned - com-
plete with volume definition, optional
loop and pitch control. Finally, you can
decide whether the sound should have
priority over the music track which may
be taking up that particular channel at
the moment of play-back.
The great thing about these SFX
tracks is their flexibility. Because sounds
are assigned to events rather than to
tracks, the number of samples on a
track is limited only by available mem-
ory. Literally hundreds of effects could
be assigned to the four channels in a
single production.
The next talent in the Timeline's
repertoire Is Midi control. This consists
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A chance to examine and odjuit your animation brforr addition to thr timeline
Afteix made easy thanks to a very handy requeiter
of a series of options lo control note
on/off, note on, control, program and
pitch information - all of which is sent
by either predefined or user-defined
Hex codes to any one of the 16 Midi
channels, complete with two data con-
trots to define Ihe note information.
If you are going to use this option,
you must known the codes which are
understood by the instrument in ques-
tion. You can then add considerably
more spectacular sound effects to you
masterpiece via Midi, employing syn-
thesisers and, of course, samplers.
Pump up the volume
Overall volume is the next element of
the production to be mastered. This is
done via the Volume track, which
defines the overall volume of the
sounds within a production. For exam-
ple, the backing music and sound
effects could be gradually faded down
prior to a voice-over and then faded up
to continue with the presentation.
Because this works independently of
the sound tracks themselves the level
between the elements remains the
same, so there's no need to adjust all
the tracks within the production indi-
vidually whenever you need some
space in the audio section.
ARexx exploited
Like many power programs,
ShowMaker eagerly embraces the
potential of ARexx - the inter-program
communication language which is
exploding in the serious Amiga market.
With the assistance of ARexx,
ShowMaker can launch all manner of
Amiga applications. You can control
ARexx-compatible sequencers such as
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ARexx has a complete track available
throughout the presentation and can
issue commands in either macro or
string formats. On top of its own ARexx
command potential, ShowMaker also
listens to instructions from ARexx itself
and has a few simple designer com-
mands of its own, with which ARexx
can issue the orders.
Genlock option
Genlocking Amiga output is big busi-
ness, and as you've probably guessed,
ShowMaker isn't going to be left out
when it comes to one of the corner-
stones of multimedia. To do it,
ShowMaker employs the SuperGen
2000S. Whether this can be substituted
for any other genlock is doubtful, but it
could be worth enquiring with Cold
Disks before you buy,
Controlling the genlock is very sim-
ple, and can be done via a number of
predefined dissolves or clean cuts which
occur between the Amiga and the
external video source. The usual overlay
options are available and, as is the
norm, they are all locked onto colour-0,
or background. The four available slid-
ers determine the amount of transition
which will occur between the video
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image and the Amiga during the time
specified in the Timeline.
So with the aid of the genlock,
smooth* transitions between full Amiga
and full video can happen either
instantly or smoothly over a desired
period, and titles can be faded up and
down as required. All effects work both
ways and do a great job of easing the
sometimes painful transition between
the Amiga and a live video source.
Toaster talents
The last of the standard tracks betrays
the software's origins. As I'm sure
you're aware, NewTek's Video Toaster
is for the moment strictly an American
play thing, but if industry rumours are
Serial tttlingt foe eiternal hardreart,
familiar ground toe commi fans
true we should be seeing this mystical
beast of the multimedia world in about
18 months. If the transatlantic reports
are to be believed, it should be well
worth the wait.
I'd love lo tell you how good the
combination of ShowMaker and
Toaster actually is, but unlike many UK
Amiga mags we admit to never having
used one - and if the truth were told so
would the others. At present the
Toaster works solely on NT5C Amigas,
so we'll just have to wait until it crosses
the Pond.
The next step
Well folks, that's about it for the 1 2
default internal tracks, but just when
you thought all was safe, ShowMaker
adds yet another twist to its already
well endowed tail by employing numer-
ous external tracks which are controlled
via the serial port
These extra tracks can command
everything from videos to Laserdiscs,
and the number of tracks available is
only limited by your system and of
course the number of suitable drivers -
several of which are supplied with the
ShowMaker software. The Amiga's
numeric keypad is employed to operate
the transport on videos and the entire
system is configured via a fairly stan-
dard comms requester.
Interface info
As you can imagine, making the most
of ShowMaker's potential requires a
very special interface and fortunately
that's just what Gold Disks have pro-
vided with one of the best sequencer
front ends I've ever had the pleasure to
use.
It literally couldn't be simpler. Events
are added to the timeline by simply
clicking-in the appropriate track, tnen
dragging and releasing when required.
This process immediately produces the
appropriate requester which then
allows you to define wipes, volumes,
loops and paths, plus a chance to view
or hear the event prior to insertion in to
the track.
This click, drag, release and
requester approach is identical
throughout the timeline and makes
production a dream. Adjustments to
the track can be done with ease, thanks
to a variety of editing modes which can
affect individual tracks or the entire pro-
duction. As you might expect, full cut
and paste editing is catered for.
Along with full Timeline editing,
there are options to work in a variety of
lime formats. These can vary from one
to sixty second increments, or alterna-
tively as beats, or measures if you prefer
musical notation.
The third triumph of the interface is
its option to work with an internal sync,
external MTC/SMPTE time code or via a
Midi clock.
And finally...
As far as conclusions are concerned,
ShowMaker is a little difficult, but I'll
have a go. If you're one of the many on
a limited budget ShowMaker would
best be described as a good package
which is occasionally prone lo the odd
stutter. If you're looking to combine
your musical and artistic exploits into a
complex and impressive presentation,
it's ideal.
Having said that, the software's real
strength is as a conductor rather than a
performer. It you have access to vast
mounds of external equipment,
ShowMaker is sure lo be a godsend,
with the ability to unify all of their indi-
vidual strengths in one stunning pro-
duction. As such it comes highly
recommended—
Showmaker Is available from
Centresoft Ltd, Unit 2/3, Holford
Way, Holford, Birmingham, B67 8X.
Price: £241.95
Wordworth
a writer's dream
The graphical nature of Wordworth*1 makes producing
locuments faster and easier. The WYSIWYG display shows
xactly how your printed document will look, different fonts,
tylcs and sizes, headers and footers, graphics and so on.
Commands are grouped under a series of pull-down
tenus, accessible either by the
louse or keyboard Frequently used
ommands have on-screen icons,
lduding Help, should you need it.
Experience the look and feel of
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ou use WBl.3).
Digita's® innovative Human
ierfaet Protocol is incorporated and sets new standards in
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sking window, which means you could for example print
le while editing another.
Graphics have always been the Amiga's strong point,
bw it s better than ever. Pictures from Deluxe Paint can be
aced in a document, and then sized, scaled and dragged
ext automatically reformats around
te image).
Wordworth's enhanced fonts wtl
e you the very best printed
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i on. Better still, you can mix
aphics. Wordworth's enhanced
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I on the same page.
Wordworth integrates with most word processors, and so
su'll be able to use any documents created will) Kindwords,
'ordperfect. Prowrite. Protext, Excellence, and any ASCII or
FText document.
As Amiga Computing put it, "the only Amiga word
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in
Wordworth is written in the UK by Digita. Which
means you'll be using an English Collin* spelling checker
and thesaurus, and you'll know where lo come for
professional support.
When Amiga Format said "a
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The only way to really appreciate Wordworth is to use
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vocation in the Amiga art world
has been dominated by the release
erf Dpaint4. This isn't surprising as it's as
*-# is most of us are likely to aspire lor
both ability and expenditure, but in
comparison to TVpaint even the latest
Doamt is no more than a plaything.
On the serious side of Amiga art the
pros have been praying for the release
Ol a 24-bit paint package which will
match up to the talents of the ever
ncreasing array ol 24-bit boards.
These miraculous bits of hardware
give access to a palette of over
16.000,000 colours and when these
boards are combined with ray tracers
jnd powerful CAD packages, broadcast
quality images pour from the Amiga
equalling anything produced on
infinitely more expensive systems. Such
Amiga imagery already appears on TV
and in films, bringing gasps of amaze-
ment Irom Amigans who mistakenly
assume that such work is far beyond
the abilities of their lowly home micro.
How wrong they are...
It's true that to produce such results
on the Amiga does requires a good deal
of investment, but in comparison with
commercial alternatives if s a mere drop
in the financial ocean.
Video work
As you're probably aware, the Amiga is
the machine for video work. Literally
every graphic artist working seriously in
the field employs an Amiga in some
aspect of his or her work.
Up until now this has mostly meant
that the Amiga was used primarily as a
rendering engine, producing either stills
or animation on a 24-bit board which
are then passed on to commercial hard-
ware such as Quantel's Paintbox - the
hardware which has long been the
industry standard in TV and film.
Because ol Quantel's long established
c
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Paul Austin drools over TVpaint, the
Amiga's first 24-bit paint package
dominance in the field and a price tag
that would leave even the largest don-
key gasping for breath, it has managed
to attains the lofty position of artistic
demigod in the electronic art world.
But is its reputation deserved?
For the frightening asking price of
Paintbox, you'd think the system would
do everything but walk the dog. In fact
it does little more than Dpaint but of
course all in full 24-bit colour.
Even with its impressive commercial
credentials it certainly won't animate
and would never even consider trying
its hand at ray tracing. Such pastimes
are purely for the Amiga and programs
such as Real3D, Imagine and Caligari to
name but a few, all of which have
built-in 24-bit output and animation
options as standard.
With Quantel you pay for pure
image quality and the ability to trans-
form ideas direct from the artist into
the 16,000,000 colours and incredible
resolution that only Quantel - and now
TVpaint - can offer.
The great news for semi-professtorv
als, professionals and enthusiasts, is that
the prohibitively expensive Quantel
dominance is about to end and TVpaint
is the software to do it, by offering the
full range of essential paint package
skills - all of which are applied in the
full glory of 24-bit colour.
With the average Quantel system
costing around £40,000, TVpaint's pal-
try asking price of £800 plus VAT is
ridiculously cheap. Even when the extra
hardware requirements are considered,
if s still possible to produce 24-bit ani-
mation and art solely on the Amiga for
under £5000, and that includes the
price of an Amiga 2000 to house all the
assorted goodies.
Essential hardware
To quote £800 for TVpaint is perhaps a
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The system will work perfectly with
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a half megabytes, but it will mean you
won't have a spare screen and perhaps
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MR •mportaniry there will be no undo
opOoo H you're as clumsy as me this
can be a real problem, but if you think
•methodically and make regular saves,
major disasters can be avoided.
To enable both the spare screen and
the undo feature, a minimum ol three
megabytes is required. If you wanl to
go the whole hog and utilise the
Harlequin's Alpha channel you'll need
the maximum of four megabytes. Who
needs a holiday, a social life, a
home... not me!
M you're the owner of an alternative
board, I'm afraid you'll have lo wait
until compatible software is available as
TVpaint is Harlequin only. It's a case of
upgrade or wait a little longer.
Aside from the Harlequin, another
essential add-on is a 68030 accelerator,
preferably fitted with an FPU or maths
co-processor. Between two and four
megabytes of 32-bit memory wouldn't
do any harm, but it isn't essential.
Obviously those lucky souls blessed
with a 3000 can skip this bit and spend
the money on surgery to make their
smug smiles even more permanent
than they already are.
Second mortgage
Right about now you'll probably be
thinking about a second mortgage, a
bank job, or perhaps what's on the
next page, but remember we're taking
about imagery that George Lucas.
Steven Spielberg and the average
advertising executive would kill for. so
keep that in mind before you turn to
the games section and the killer nutter
ninja turtles.
Next on the shopping list comes a
hard drive. This isn't strictly an essential
but with even small files running to
over 100K a floppy wouldn't be too
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the bigger the better, fnarr, fnarr...
The last in the line of add-ons is an
extra monitor, preferably a multisync or
VGA, which would of course require a
flicker fixer rf you're working on a 2000.
If you're a 3000 owner you could
always go for a bit more surgery or per-
haps start saving for a 68040 upgrade.
Theoretically it should be possible lo
use the CVBS output from the Amiga
and put that into the CVBS on the
monitor thereby freeing the main RGB
for the output from the Harlequin.
Switching between the Harlequin
image and the workbench screen
would then just be a matter of selecting
the input on the monitor. Un-
fortunately when this was tried with a
1084 monitor the CVBS input was com-
pletely out of sync and unusable.
It may well be possible to share
inputs on another type of med-res
monitor, but to be honest this would
only be a temporary measure as the
system really needs a hi-res monitor to
be at its best. Apart from the lower
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image quality there's also the added
disadvantage of image loss.
for example if you're working with a
hi-res Harlequin output of 910x576, a
standard Amiga monitor simply doesn't
have the number of pixels available to
display the entire page, so sooner or
later a hi-res monitor would be required
for any serious use.
Another optional element would be
one or more of the many 24-bit com-
patible ray tracers and CAD packages,
the likes of which where mentioned
earlier and described in the image inh
boxes throughout the article.
Interface information
Once you've made the appropriate
investment, the next task is to install
the software. This is done automatically
and all that's required is the partition
name. The only other essential is the
dongte which must be present in the
parallel port before boot up. With an
asking price of £800 plus VAT, it's not
entirely surprising that the French
authors Tecsoft take the odd precaution
against piracy.
Once the software is installed and
the dongle inserted, the program
defaults to a opening screen which
allows you to select one of the three
available resolutions and whether or
not you require the Undo or Function
options.
The final choice is the whether you
require the present screen on the frame
buffer to be retained. This is a useful
function if you want lo touch up your
latest ray tracing before committing it
lo digital posterity.
When your selection is complete, the
Harlequin screen clears and redisplays
complete with the TVpaint selection
panel. Unlike Dpaint, all the available
options are accessed through this single
A Seal* font with one of the two
opllonai unooth control*,
polled over the now familiar
denUty graduation
requester which operates with a combi-
nation of right and left mouse clicks, in
a similar manner to that of Dpaint's
control panel.
One of the many examples of the
double button system is the Density
control which can be invoked by a sin-
gle left mouse click or altered with the
right. As soon as the right mouse is
selected the density requester appears
and can be redesigned with any of the
many presets, or altered manually with
the mouse.
Using the software Is simplicity itself
and will take the average Dpaint fan a
matter of minutes to come to terms
with. The only real difference between
the two is TVpaint's lack of animation
and, of course, the absence of any
pull-downs.
Power features
One of the first points raised in the
excellent accompanying manual is the
design teams' approach to the software
itself. Rather than being a techno-
junkies nirvana complete with all man-
ner of scripts and programming
protocols, the program is very simple.
The technology trap is easy to fall into
when designing power programs, but
thankfully this particular pitfall has been
avoided.
One of the first examples of this user
friendly approach is the floating control
panel which can be moved and placed
anywhere onscreen, only changing
position at your command. This also
applies to all of the sub-menus, and as
a result the flow of work isn't inter-
rupted by annoying permanent
requesters which need to be removed
from the keyboard.
The Undo function, which is available
with the larger Harlequin configura-
tions, doesn't stop with a simple erase
or replace but can be set up with
parameters which can be activated
from the opening format screen or the
system requester on the main control
panel.
The spare screen option has obvious
advantages as any Dpaint fan will tell
you but an added bonus is PVpaint's
Transparency option which allows the
spare screen to be mixed with the fore-
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rate button/separate colour option (or
the mouse and the usual variety of
brush options which include lasso poly-
gon and rectangular brush selection -
all of which can be rotated and re-sized
in the classic paint package manner.
As well as the invaluable Density
control, which was mentioned earlier,
the system also boasts a range mode
which can be defined over either the
entire palette or just a specified range.
As you can probably see from the
screenshots, when the range option is
combined with the airbrush effect the
true power of 24-bit starts to appear,
as the entire spectrum scrolls through a
single mouse stroke.
It is perhaps the airbrush that best
shows the power of the Harlequin and
TVpaint combination. On more than
one occasion I found myself trying to
remove dust from the monitor which in
fact were merely faint traces of paint
left by a wayward manoeuvre with the
mouse. To be honest it took all my
meagre mental powers to drag myself
away and try out some of the other fea-
tures.
Perhaps the most confusing part of
using a 16,000,000 colour palette is
how exactly it can be accessed without
the use of a palette displaying every
colour. As you can imagine, a requester
showing all the colours would be about
50 feet long and almost impossible to
apply.
To combat this a whole range of
palettes can be cycled through and if a
specific colour can't be found, individ-
ual colours can be edited by either their
RGB or CMY colours. If that's still not
enough, they can be selected direct
from two spectrum disks at the bottom
of the requester.
If that's still not enough, various
colours can be blended in the mixer -
an option which allows individual
colours to be sprayed on top of each
other and mixed manually.
The last of the colour controls is a
Gamma option which allows you to
adjust the Gamma curve on either the
entire image or combinations or the
RGB elements. This can be particularly
useful if you want to lift the colour bal-
ance within an image, but saving out
AM/OA
€0MPVTING
beforehand is an essential as sometimes
it can do a little more harm than good.
Apart from the power of the paint
package itself, the other essential of any
24-bit package is its compatibility with
the myriad of graphic file formats.
Fortunately for TVpaint, all of the essen-
tials are ready and waiting with full sup-
port for 24-bit IFF, TGA, Rendition and
Deep modes, so no matter what output
you and your ray tracer prefer, TVpaint
should be more than happy to import
your latest creation.
The final element of the TVpaint
equation is its ability to multitask with
perfection, allowing you to jump
between the paint package and any
other Amiga application which you may
wish to employ.
When you've finally decided on the
colour composition and loaded any rel-
evant files, the real work can start. This
is where the now almost mandatory
keyboard short cuts come into their
own, making everything from selecting
an airbrush to specifying magnification
as simple as a single keystroke. As a
result, commercial artists should be able
to use their valuable time to the full and
leap from one tool to the next with
ease, pausing only to cash a cheque
and send an invoice.
Artistic opinions
As you're no doubt aware I'm not
exactly disappointed, as indeed I didn't
expect to be for a package that retails
at just under a £1,000 minus the essen-
tial hardware.
Having said that, and considering
the alternatives which approach over
SO times the price for what is essentially
the same system. TVpaint has to be
good value.
My only real complaint is the soft-
A dean loot at MA modified Kettle, complete with Krom thanks
lo the alrbunh and a %un turn! added with the dimity too'
ware's tendency to crash occasionally,
which I must admit is infuriating, espe-
cially if you're in the final throes of your
piece de la resiitanee.
To be fair to the software, it's a
strong possibility that the fault lies with
my rather elderly 2000 rather than the
software itself.
To clarify the crashing problem I
took some advice from Martin Lowe at
ASC, who assured me that such prob-
lems are unheard of north of the bor-
der, and must be either the fault of my
elderly companion or perhaps due to
TVpaint's need for a rather a weighty
amount of continuous memory on the
parent machine.
On the whole the complete package
comprising the Harlequin, a 68030 and
TVpaint is quite simply incredible, and
is sure to help in the production art that
only Quantel's paintbox can compete
with. And all for just a
fraction of the price...
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TVPalnt Is available from:
The Amiga Centre Scotland
4 Hart Street Lane
Edinburgh EH1 3RN.
Tel 031-557 4242
Fax 031-557 3260
Price: £940 Including VAT
A closer look at /ui! what the demity tool It topable of Polygons, tphem and rectangles oU
fated with the limitless number of definable density patterns available from the requester
The Digita range
Horn* Accounts?*
An advanced version of
Home Accounts, which is
limited only by the capacity of your
computer Sophisticated reporting with
graphics, and special options such as VAT
and loan calculation facilities. Equally
suitable for businesses, clubs and than ties
£54.99
Horn* Accounts
Ideal for home users who want a simple
low cost way to plan and manage home
£29.99
DOCok
This fast, simple spreadsheet Includes
many advanced features, including a
windowing facility, so that you can look at
different parts of the spreadsheet at the same
time £39.99
Moilshot Plus
If you ever need to send out mailings or
print labels, this program isfof you.
Animated labels appear on-screen as a
continuous sheet, allowing you to scroll
backwards and forwards. You can search, sort
and detect duplicate labels, print side by side
and much mon £49.99
DOBom
If you're looking for fast access to
information, and the ability to create
customised reports, then this relational
database is for you tS I I £49.99
Day-By-Day
An excellent way to get organised. You'll
be reminded of birthdays, meetings and
appointments. It includes monlh^week/day
planners and automatic reminders of overdue
events. £29.99
Personal Tax Planner
Plan your own tax with ease Tim simple
program will calculate your Income tax
liability allowing you to perform instant
whal-if'calculations and produce pertinent
facts about your tax position. A professional
version is also available for accountants and
£49.99
tax
E-Typ.
Transform your computer into a type-
writer Because text is printed instantly, you
can line up your form, press return and space
a few times to move to Ihe correct place, and
then start typing Ideal for filling in forms
and enveloi i £39.99
System 3
A suite of programs which perform all the basic functions
for a small business. They may be used
independently or integrated and include
Cashflow Controller. Slock: Control and
iking am • £59.99
System 3e
Like System 3. but with extended capacity
for customer accounts and stock items.
£79.99
Cashbook Controller
Take the drudgery out of book keeping as
this program will replace your cash and
petty cash books. In addition to recording
cash, bank and VAT transactions, you can
enter. credit sales and purchases, and for all
these entries the program will automatically
complete double entry routines, to ensure
your records are always in balance £59.99
Final Accounts
Using the information created with
Cashbook Controller, this program will
produce a complete set of accounts, including
Trial Balance, Trading and Profit and Loss
Account. Balance Sheet, as well as useful
accounting rat '- £39.99
Cashbook Combo
A money-saving combination pack containing Cashbook
droller and Final Accounts. £79.99
Word worth-
The graphical nature of Wordworth makes
producing documents faster and easier.
With the enhanced printing fonts, Collins
Spelling Checker and Thesaurus, no other
low (Amiga) £1 29.99
The Digita range is available for Commodore Amiga.
Atari ST and IBM PC unless stated otherwise, and every
program comes with a seven day money-back guarantee.
The only way to really appreciate Digita software is to
use it. Phone 0395 270273 for more information, or write
to Digita, FREEPOST. Exmouth EX8 2YZ. All prices
include VAT, postage and packaging.
INTERNATIONAL
software tbats right
The Digita range is available lo the trade through Columbus. Gem.
I IB Marketing. IBD. 1 Jirr. Leisuresoft. Precision and SDL.
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If you're looking for
a genlock, then let
Jason Holborn guide
you through the
options available
u
o
■ 1 you fancy yourself as something
I of a would-be Speilberg, then you
m may well be surprised to learn that
you already own one of the most pow-
erful video devices ever developed.
With little more than your Amiga, a
video recorder and a device called a
genlock, you too could create video
effects that would have left BBC video
engineers dumbstruck little more than a
few years ago.
The key to all this power is the gen-
lock, a sophisticated little device that
has revolutionised low cost video pro-
duction on the Amiga. Genlocks are
available for other machines, but the
Amiga's obvious power has allowed
developers to produce professional
quality genlocks at a fraction of the
cost
Atari may have coined the phrase,
but the Amiga is still the only machine
that can truly claim to offer "power
without the price" where video is con-
cerned. You'll find the Amiga being
used in conjunction with professional
video decks, video processors, chro-
makeys and paintbox systems within
many professional post-production
houses. Even on the television you'll
find the Amiga's talents at work - check
out the ITV Chart Show, for example.
So what is a genlock? Well, put sim-
ply, it's a device which allows you to
combine the video output from your
Amiga with the output from a video
recorder or camcorder.
Specialist circuitry within the genlock
allows the background colour of the
Amiga video signal to be replaced with
the video output from your VCR. This
process allows you lo overlay titles onto
your home videos and a lot more
besides.
Choosing a genlock is a complicated
process which must not be entered Into
lightly. If you do, you could well end up
with a genlock that is quite unsuitable
for your particular application - worse
still, you could waste a tol of your hard
earned money. So, before you wnte out
that cheque, read our mega round up
of the current state of ihe art in Amiga
genlocks.
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minor 'unction ol the ge"lock
Genlocks carry out three ba rc lunc
.ions - they code, genlock and key
|£ JS* Coding, a pro-
combine the two signals. The excite-
rn^oesn't really star, un« we g o
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you want to do is to record tne j
£1 17 - ASAP Tel:
At the bottom ol the genlocking pile is MiniGen, a cheap and
very cheerful genlock that has been around lor a number ol
years now. Up until the release ol Roctec's RG300, MiniGen
was the choice for home video enthusiasts on a budget, but H
is starling Id show its age.
The MiniCen hardware consists of a pretty uninspiring little
crwm box. in much the same shape as Commodore's ASOO TV
Modulator Connector wise, there's not a lot to talk about
apart from (he usual composite video-in and video-out con-
nectors and a 23-pin connector to connect the thing lo the
Amiga. Surprisingly il doesn't have an RCB pass-through,
which really is a silly omission. I really cannot understand how
hardware manulacturers could possibly
be unaware ol the importance
ol RCB pass-through
The genlock has three
modes of operation - Video
only, Amiga only and Mi«. Video
only displays the Incoming com-
posite signal, Amiga only displays
the Amiga image. and rni» dis-
plays the two together. Uke most
budget genlocks. MimGen doesn't
allow you lu coni/ol which colour
register Is used for keying, so you're
restricted lo |ust the background
For the first time buyer...
o
ASAP MiniCen
0724 280222
colour. This isn't too much of a problem really, as m
users will probably have no need to alter the keying colour.
MiniCen doesn't come with any software at all which is yet
another big disappointment. Mosl genlocks at least give you a
couple of test Images - some even come with complete pack-
ages - but you're on your own here folks! As rt is. a good video
tilling package should abo be on your shopping list.
The overall image quality ol MiniCen was thought lo be
pretty good a Irrw years beck, but it has aged lembfy. Some
screens sutler terribly from colour bleeding and the genlock
occasionally seems to lose sync even when using a good clean
source signal That said, MiniGen isn't
that bad - |ust ask the thousands of
satisfied users across the country!
MiniGen was a revolutionary
piece of kit when it was released a
few years back, but it no longer cuts
it. It will do the job, but this is
about as far as things go If you're
alter a budget genlock, then the
Rociec unit is definitely a belt
bet.
Performance
Value
RocCen RC30
0\ 7 -Silka Systems Tel: 081 1091 11 1
Ounng K lew months on the market, graphics and .ade
the RocCen has become the choice for
video enthusiasts on a budget It has a
number of Hows, but its obvious talents
more than make up lor these.
The Roctec RC300C comes to you
in a rather llal lltUe box sporting more
knobs and whistles than a lairground
organ. It connects to the Amiga via a
long cable with the video source ..sell
being ted in through
a phono connec-
tor.
Uke MiniGen,
rhe RocCen
doesn't have an
RGB pass-through
either, which is %uci«
,i -.name tot a 9«"
lock with such a
high specitlcati
Rumour h,<
Hoctec are |
lo correcl this. but
nothing more has
been heard Irom the
company since the
genlock's release.
The RocCen too can be operated in
three modes - Amiga only, Video only
and Mix - but It goes further than
both the Rendale unit or Mln.Gen
lhanks to its powerful fade and dis-
solve controls which are bu.lt in to the
genlock as standard. These two modes
allow you to fade in and out the Amiga
graphics only and video only. This fea-
ture alone makes the RocCen a very
good bet,
The RocCen does come with its
own software but - to be (rank - It s
not worth the disk that holds it.
There's the usual selection of test
.mages plus a very naff video titling
package that looks
as It it was written
,n AmigaBasic. If
you've got any
sense, *w
decent video soft-
ware should be
bought immedi-
ately.
I must admit
that despite
Haws, I Uke lh<
RocCen. It'*
shame that
doesn't hav<
an RCB pass-
through, but
then an upgraded RocCen should
eventually be made available (don t
hold your breath thoughl). for home
video enthusiasts who don't need lots
of fancy features, the Roctec RCJOO is
the genlock to be seen using
Performance...
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A8802 is on
been available
-'•o oilers near broai
T)< Rendale- l<anJwi
£200 - Martam Lid
w few ..-.0 classic genlocks available for the Amiga It
-umber of yean now, but it's still * very capable syitem
[utility output at a very reasonable price,
welly boring - a little box that connects to the Amiga
*:CA puH Unlike both MiniGan and RocGen, it does have an RGB pass-through,
tih<ft H nice to see lhe composite signal li led to the genlock through a BNC -style
cnnectof. therefore allowing the cables to remain
connected - there's nothrng more annoying than
noping a cable out of Its socket halfway through a
yeolocking scswonl
Unlike both MintCen and the Roctec unit, the
-dai* doesn't have mode twitching built in to the
9#nlock hardware. That's not to say that mode
nwfching isn't supported though The Rendale fully
uipportj the usual three video modes, but before you
can take advantage of this you must get out your
trusty loldenng iron and actually mirte a mode switch-
ing cable yourself It's a pretty simple bit of wiring, but
annoying that Rendalr
the A8802 in the first
kenng around with the
Tel: 081-941 611?
with a few dead genlocks as a result What the Rendale has got going tor it Is image
uu >ji wiring, uui
rijlc didn't build the cable in to |
place Most users don't like tin- |
se internals ol expensive equip- '
quality The A8802 was originally designed for semi-professional use, so its genlock-
Ing hardware is of a very high standard. In fact, it's not far short of broadcast qual-
ity. I' you then chuck the output from the Rendale through a PAL , the result* I
you will get will look very professional Indeed
One very nice leature ol the A81
that it can be upgraded to Super-VHS lor
around 1400 This may seem rather sleep,
but this price also includes the cost of that
extra fade box (hat comes as standard
with the Super -VHS A8B02
II you're after a high quality genlock
along the lines of the G2 Video Centre
bui can't quite afford the extra cash,
then the Rendale A8802 is a good bet,
Not only doei »t produce very high qual-
ity results, but It can literally grow with
you, assuring that your new toy
become outdated.
For the serious video enthusiast...
that offers a
endale A8802 S-VHS
£599.99 - MarcamTel: 081-941 6117
The lollow up to the classic A8802 Is the Super-VHS A8802, a genlock that
tot more than |ust Super-VHS compabbilHy. Coming in at just under £600, it offers
good value too
like most Super-VHS genlocks, the Rendale doesn't just support S-VHS. If you
teel like taking the plunge straight awaybut haven't got access to S-VHS decks,
then the unit can still be used with a composite video signal by simply flicking a
witch on the back of the unit. Obviously you won't get the same image quality,
but you still get all the extra features that the S-VHS A8802 has to offer.
Probably the most sinking difference between the normal A8802 and the S-
VHS A8B02 is the inclusion of a bulky but nicely presented effects control box that
is about three times the size of the genlock itself All connections are made
through this box, with a simple lead connecting all this video wizardry to the
actual genlock unit. This fader box must be brought around Irom the back of your
Amiga to sit next to your Amiga keyboard, allowing easy access to its controls.
Thanks to that extra box, the A8802 fully supports the usual crossfadlng and
lading to black that is common with genlocks of this price However, it also sup-
ports a number of powerful wipes that will allow you to create some quite stun-
ning effects within your video pioduclions.
Using a combination ol the controls available, it's possible to create left, right,
up, down, top left, bottom right, middle of the screen wipes and a lot more
besides. Clever use of these wipe effects can produce some very nice effects.
As you'd expect from a Rendale genlock, the quality of the genlocked signal Is
very good indeed. Once again, it's not quite up to broadcast quality spec, but it's
more Ihan good enough for semi-professional purposes When you also consider
its relatively low price, the Super-VHS Rendale is a very good bet Indeed.
GST Gold
£550 - Third Coast Technologies 0257 472444
Performance.-. 72%
Vilue.
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You may not have heard of GST, but
they're a big name within the ST mar-
ket. Indeed, they were one of the first
companies to produce a workable
genlock for the ST, a machine that
was never really that good at video
work. Now they've started producing
their wares for the Amiga, but the
competition is somewhat tougher.
Like all GST'i products, the GST
Gold lives inside a brilliant colour co-
ordinated Wack box about the su:e of
a good thick hardback book. It fully
supports both Super-VHS and com-
posite signals, so rfs not let down in
this department. On the front of the
genlock are a couple of controller
knobs which allow you to alter the
contrast, luminance and colour of the
incoming signal. Very few genlocks
seem to offer these controls, so this is
definitely one up for the GST Gold.
The documentation which comes
with the GST Gold is pretty good... if
you can read French, that is. Perhaps
but it would have
been nice to have had an English
manual. My French is pretty appalling,
so getting to know the GST Gold was
something of a struggle to say the
least. So if you order a GST, make sure
that you insist on an English manual.
One very nice feature of the GST Is
its built in RGB splitter, which is not
actually that useful for desktop video,
but is a real boon It you own a video
dlgitiser. So, if you also own a digltiser
like DlgiView or Rombo's Vidi-Amiga,
you can use the genlock to separate a
composite or S-VHS signal Into its
component red, green and blue sig-
nals. It's really nothing more than a
gimmkk, but it's handy nonetheless.
The genlock Itself seems pretty
basic, although the Image quality Is
very good indeed Surprisingly, it
doesn't offer any form ol wipes or
fades, which is definitely not going to
help it, especially now that budget
units like the RocGen offers these for
considerably less money. In all, you're
probably better off with the Rendale.
Genlocking top tips
II you wanl to get the best from your new acquisition, then follow these handy hints:
1 . When overlaying graphics, always try to use the best possible quality composite video source. Try to avoid using second generation videotapes. If you do, you may find
that the image will break up terribly.
2. For more professional work, avoid using low resolution composite video decks. If you can afford it, go for Super-VHS or even Hi-8.
3. Avoid highly saturated images - these can cause terrible amounts of colour bleeding.
4. Use decent quality video cables, preferably cables designed specifically for video signals. These shielded cables cut down signal noise and interference to a minimum,
5. I* you are using standard composite VHS, then it's well worth investing in a PAL encoder - a device which gives better image quality when the genlocked signal is laid
down on to videotape.
6. Keep your video graphics as simple as possible - the bolder the image, the clearer it will be when recorded onto videotape
7. Titles look a lot clearer and more readable if you add a black outline around them. This also cuts down colour bleeding.
8. A good investment is a sound mixer. This will allow you mix the sound from the original videotape with a commentary and possibly even a backing track.
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Most of the genlocks featured would be
fine for senous video applications, but
even these aren't quite up to the task of
handling broadcast quality video like
that required by video post-production
houses.
Thankfully, Amiga developers have
got this covered too. It's beyond the
scope of this article to mention them in
any great detail, but here's a quick run
down of some of the more common
prolessional units available.
G2 VC3 - The big brother of both C2's
VC1 and VC2 is the VC3, a broadcast
quality genlock that is selling like hot
cakes at the moment. The reason for
this is simple - the VC3 is the only
Amiga genlock that supports YCrCB
(YUV) output. II you don't know what il
is, then chances are that you don't
need it)
MaxiCen - Like most professional gen-
locks, MaxiCen comes to you in 19in.
1U rack-mount format, so it can be
installed easily and securely within a
professional video environment. It sup-
ports Super-VHS and PAL composite
with full broadcast quality output
Neriki ImageMaster - Offering basi-
cally the same features as the MaxiCen
genlock is the Neriki range of genlocks.
These too come in rack-mount format
and offer the usual selection of wipes
and lades with broadcast quality output
in PAL, composite and Super-VHS for-
mats.
Rendale A8806 - Rendale's flagship
genlock is the A8806, a very nice little
number that also comes in rack-mount
format. It too offers broadcast quality
output with the usual selection of wipes
and fades. It's also dirt cheap - at just
under £900, it represents very good
value for money.
/
Video Center Plus
£1 1 70 -G2 System!
',2 Systems Video Centre is Actually
vailable in three different iwtfigtiri-
Ions starting with the basic Video
lenlre, moving up to the Video
enlre Plus (reviewed) and finally the
rufemonal quality Video Centre 3.
i a result, C2 is a company worth
ilktng to regardless of whether
Wi're working for the BBC or your
iinly Miivts
Both the VCf and VC2 consist of
it comoles which sit on the desk
it to your Amiga. The VC3 is a
sck-mounted uml which Is <on-
:>lled via a separate remote unit.
ie VC1 and VC2 are very similar
irl from the tact thai the VC2 has
1 extra features which video pro-
tlonals may lind useful.
As you'd expect, both the VCI
VC2 will allow you to perform a
iber of fade and dissolve effects
a pair of slider controls on the
)le front panel These are basi-
the same as the fade options
lilable on the RocGen - crossfad-
i and fade lo black - allhough they
' performed rather better
)ne nice feature of the VC senes is
*l you can change the keying
ir which is used when overlaying
)hlcs.
his. it a surprisingly rare function
find on an Amiga genlock.
Tel: 0252 737151
said lhat the Super-VHS Rendale can
also do (his. The key register ii
changed by selling a series of di
switches at the back of the genloc
so it's worth having j good ball-
pen on hand to do this.
Unique to the VC2 is a set ot
wipe lunclions which will allow y
to add a bit of class to your vld
productions
These wipes allow you to view
either the Amiga or background
video through one nt 20 van ah
sl«d and shaped patterns. The
patterns include circles, rectangle
and diagonals. These effects can
positioned anywhere on the scree
thanks to a joystick control built m l
the console
Overall, the VC2 is a powerful an
very capable gunlocking jystem lha
whilst not being broadcast quality,
suitable lor most semi-profession
video applications.
In lacl. the only thing I could lind
to complain about is the price - at
lust over £1100, it is rather pricey,
especially when you compare it to
the Rendale.
There's no doubting its obvious
power, but is it really worth the extra
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A really impressive selection of pictures came
in this month, so this lot should take some
beating.
First ol all we have two pictures from a mystery
contributor known only as Dope Inc. The two pic-
lures are entitled "Blue Moon" and "Mountains", for
obvious reasons,
Tony Donnelly in Northern Ireland has sent us the
excellent "Snake" picture and also a distinctly odd
creation called "Toi Doi".
Winner this month though, and deservedly so, is
Jared Derrett. His two pictures, "Assassin" and
"Executioner" are so good that some people actually
thought they were screenshols Irom a game rather
than Gallery submissions.
He'll be heanng the creak of the postman's knees
as he struggles with a copy of Deluxe Paint IV and a
glossy, framed copy of the "Assassin" picture all the
way to Essex. The lucky wee scamp.
Can you top that? Perhaps you've got some old digi-
tal doodles knocking around at home. If so, slick
(hem on a disk and send 'em in to us at:
The Gallery, Amiga Computing, Europa House,
Adlmgton Part, Macclesfield SK10 4NP
You too could grace these hallowed pages and earn
yourself the goods. Please remember to include
details of how you created your picture(s), plus your
name, address, telephone number and what format
the picture(s) are in. Good luck!
By the way, apparently there's been a delay in
sending out some of the glossy pictures, so if you're
a past winner who hasn't got theirs yet, then give us
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going to be worth the five year wait
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TEENAGE MUTANT HERO TURTLES 2
- Image Works
Anyone who has actually played the coioop ver-
sion will be fully aware that it is pretty damn
good no matter what you may think of the green
buggers in a pie-crust
Well the home computer sequel to the highest
selling computer game of all time is a conver-
sion of the much lauded coin-op. Press
response to the original was lukewarm, but
the public bought It In droves [shows how
much we know, eh punters7J, and
even now it still hovers in and out
of the charts,
This time It
looks as though a
favourable press
response is likely - how can they mess up a good coin-op? - so it will probably not
sell at all. On the plus side the strong graphics feature a load of different moves for
either of the two turtles on screen at any time, several different enemies and the
old adversary Shredder.
This horizontally scrolling beat- em-up will be released in November. Price TBA.
STAR TREK
- Electronic Arts
Trekkies out there will have to hold
their breath for a while due to the fact
thai the 25th Anniversary game of the
onginal TV senes is first to be released
on the PC. Don't fret however
because it will eventually be convert-
ed for the Amiga.
The game combines a 3D space
flight simulator with a wide vanety of
role-playing adventures to produce
something that should send all the
Trekkies into fits of delight
Plot details are sketchy at the
moment, but I am trying to exert
some personal pressure lo get the pro-
grammers to include a sub-game
where you have to guess which star is
going to turn into the Enterprise dur-
ing the opening titles, as well as some
graphical touches like everyone on
the bridge jumping to one side when
the Enterprise takes a hrt. So far they
haven! listened.
Expect it for the Amiga some time
in the first half of next year.
7 COLOURS
Available this November m f 19 99
- Image Works
Excuse me a moment while I wet myself.
Now I know these previews are meant to
be unbiased and containing nothing more
than information, but this product really is
going to be the dogs you-know-whats.
Mind-gibbering graphics and orchestral
sound effects combine with brilliant beat-
em-up style gameplay to produce what
deserves to be the Christmas number one on
merit alone.
The plot puts you In control of a young
Samurai who follows the Demon King who
murdered his master all the way to Japan In
the 24th century In an attempt to avenge
the guy's death. Eight way scrolling horizon-
tal action gives the player plenty of scope
to use his sword in any direction he wants.
If you get the moves right you can look
realty stylish by jumping up, getting a bat
above you on the way, one across from
you while you re at the top and another
one below you one the way down. Flash
Is an understatement
Due around November at a price TBA.
LEANDER - Psygnosis
Lord Tyeger has kidnapped Pnncess Lucanna - he can use her to replenish his dwin-
dling power. You play the role of Leander - a handsome hero for the Middle Ages,
and only you, wait for it, only you can rescue her. Something to do with a union
overtime Dan apparently.
This platform based beat- em-up will feature |deep breath) 22 levels, three differ-
ent worlds, over 1 00 enemies, a great intra', toads of unusual potions and pick-ups.
password system, weather effects (this comes in the form of a water pistol that your
friend can fire at you during the game, possibly), and over 60 different sound effects.
It will be available in November at £25.99.
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HARD NOVA - Electronic Arts
This PC conversion puts you in the role of Nova, a hard-bitten mercenary who has
lost ha whole crew in a freak accident involving a meteorite and a pickled onion -
probably.
The player must recruit a new crew and travel the anarchic wastes of the four
systems finding adventure and danger wherever he goes. Makes him sound tike
some sort of mad
Rupert Bear. The
game asks you to
hang around in bars
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POPULOUS II - Electronic Arts
What can I say? All they've told me is that it's based in ancient Greece, it is new .
improved and the graphics look fantastic. That's no Woody use to me is it?
Beyond that it is all highly confidential, but it will be out in December at £29
TV SPORTS BOXING - Cinemaware
Following the highly-acclaimed TV Spons Foot-
ball and Basketball titles, the next sports title
moves away from the American theme and onto
a more global sport the bloodthirsty, money-
grabbing world of professional boxing.
As well as the high quality graphics and
gameplay that Cinemaware have made their
own [creep, crawl] the game will also include a
full management section where you can shape
the careers of talented boxers, force the less tal-
ented to take a dive for cash and take a nice
Juicy tut of all the Income to line your own
already fat pocket
This should be with us some ome in the next
year, again with price TBA
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player against the computer or another player or two players.
Facility to practice skills and tactics.
Facility to creote a team at all skill levels and design tactics.
Instinctive Joystick controls to dribble, pass, shoot or do a dummy.
There are two running speeds, two types of dribbling and passing
and five types of shots at the basket pump shot Hook shot,
Skyhook, Running Jump shot and Slam Dunk).
Each player on the court is an individual with o unique mixture ol
attributes (Age, Height, Flair, Pace, Stamina and Composure)
and skills sPassinc;, Dribbling, Stealing, Shooting and Jumpi g).
Two types of Leagues. Action Replay at 3 speeds.
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moustache and his alarming tendency
to always crop up near a murder, it's
surprising that he hasn't been locked
up. And Miss Marpies no better She
may look like a doddery old spinster
with a mind like a steel trap, but she
probably kjres stray cats into her house
and turns them mto beer-mats for the
summer fete
And what about Lord Peter Whim-
sey? Or Maigret? No. m my book, all
these so-called 'detectives' are as
dodgy as something, er. very dodgy
indeed. Than* the lord, then, that our
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hero, Raoul Dusenber, is a bona fide
detective. A fully employed. 100 per
cent legit' nosy old sod. A "rower* in
other words
Apparently way back in the roanng
twenties. Raoul was hunting down
some nasty French Woke who was hid-
ing in a restaurant and rather than let
the whippersnapper get away with it
he arrested everybody in the restaurant
Naturally, the highbrow toffs In this
up-market chunder palace were a
smtdgen annoyed by this James Ander-
ton-like behaviour and caused some-
thing of a ruckus.
All except for one. A Greek fella
called NrKlos Karaboudjan stood up for
Raoul's "putong the boor n" policy and
applauded him for 'Just doing his job"
Freemasonry ahoy, eh chums? An
just to show that there were no hard
feelings. Nifciasjnvited Raoul on a luxury
cruise. Cruise, eh?
The plot begins to fail mto place. All
we need now is a corpse. Lo and
behold, look what we have here. Poor
old Niklos Wotsisname has been mur-
dered at sea So now we have a crutse
and a corpse, which sounds like a per-
fect place to start the game...
We Join Raoul as he discovers the
body, just in time to be clob-
bered over the head by a
sinister shadowy figure.
Flippin' nora, what a way to
start Anyway, Raoul has a
quick, if not entirely planned, n.
then gets on with finding the '
who perpetrated the perpetration
' Also on board the ship are a
of friends and colleagues of N*»
of whom have more skeletons r
closets than clothes. Its up to Raw
comer these suspects and qui* tner
the murder. He can also pick up
from eavesdropping on the other,
by inspecting the objects he finds
Wee that girl in Scooby Doo.
Raoul is moved around the if*
the point and click interface that ■
to have become a permanent feafca
this graphic adventure genre You r
act with the scenery by clicking
whatever object interests you and
by magic, a menu appears containing
the actions relevant to that object '
instance. cl»ck on a book and you ;i
EXAMINE. TAKE, or READ It Tins
that the number of options Is g)
increased, as each object can haw
action that relates to it. and it atone
As you can see, Cruise is a bit of
stunner. The graphics are bigger m
better than any of its rivals, and the ■
mation is smooth and sexy, abjyraj
Galaxy bar True it's not the spew™
game in the world, but speed isnt w
this game is about Oh no. It's about
murder.
Thankfully, the arcade sequenc
from Operation Stealth
ped. There was n
^nnoymg ifwn having to spend
rjiougfrng through the adventure,
to come a cropper because you ca
handle the arcade bits. So. Cruise for
Corpse is a brairvteaser from top to l
As all the acbon takes place on N
ship, the game lacks Stealth's sense
size, but instead concentrates on
ng the atmosphere of those Aga
Christie films, where everyone Is a
pect, and anyone could be the ki
This restricted game area also
allows much more detail to
be included in the
scenery, as you can tell
from the piccies, and this
helps immensely with
the mood.
Another
great innova-
tion is the
conversation
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«u can now build up a library o' sub-
.«» to grill your suspects over For
MBKt you can talk to Tom and Find
j bit about him. Now talk to
*— j •inc and you have the chance to
"j* Jftout Tom She may teH you about
* :*r i hobbies, and you can then talk
<>:<£ those. This way you can carry out
^Jt-.^e discussions and expand your
-**ogue of questions and dues, uncov-
nurky secrets along the way.
The whole game is so highly polished
you could stick. It to your wind-
m and use « as a rear-view mirror
Bin-tacking five floppy disks on
car and see what I mean. On
. ■ r. ind, that's probably Weaai,
1%m _
** first, the game seems a littf?*Bff-
pjsnq. as it only takes a short while to
ma around the whole ship without
getting any clues. Stick with it though,
and you'll slowly but surely be drawn in
t ane of the most intriguing and involv-
ing games you're ever like-
ly to play. Once you
get the hang of the
conversation bits, the
game really opens
RmoI Humble* ovar an early Donor Who itl
up and you go forward in leaps and
jGuilui ^^^^^^^^^^^
There are a few niggles .thouflr^^
Sometimes the actions provided don't
seem to suit the objee* I found some
highly suspicious bu^a, but could onry
EXAMINE them H when i clicked
on the chairs In the bar I could EXAM-
INE, INSPECT. PUSH, PULL RUB. SIT
DOWN and TAKE them. Needless to say.
most of those
o p 1 1 o n s
resulted in a
reply along
the lines of "I can t do that" where*;
EXAMINING the boxes told me that sur-
.vere bo."*?' The
lead to some pretty frustrating investigat
ing. as you really can't afford to pass any
options by in case you rrus a clue.
Another niggle o the way that almost
att the doors seem to be locked, and most
of the characters spend a lot of time hid-
ing away m their cabins. You can spend a
long time wandering around before you
get lucky and meet a new character
haps I'm just impatient
To counteract these slightly bother-
some aspects, there are plenty of
opbons to make Iffe easier. The map. for
instance, that allows you to move fiom
place to place without actually having to
walk there, or the clock that moves
found every tune you glean some wefui
information. The furth
moves the more opbons become open
to you.
Also on the "that's a clever idea*
side is the well thought out
disk system. To cut
down on swap-
ping, each •>!'.. i L'-
the ship is confi i w
one disk T^ 'efore. you need
onlv '.war : when moving
from fn.j dec* io another This helps to
|ffep the continuity flowing and (ft a
wonder that other
adventures haven't used
mis method in me pasfc ft
It's nice to ste that the
game h^s plenty of fret
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gating is entirely up to you. B^M
means that p :. marie through
brainpower f rnu i
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brilliantly w I d Jusi like the
Dy. >t forces you to sock around to
finish to find out whodunnit Enft
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intelligence on the biggest flight simulator ever
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Birds of Prey, produced by
Argonaut and dis-
tributed via Electronic
Arts, has had a rather long gesta-
tion period, not to mention a
name change. Originally to be
known as Hawk, this flight simu-
lation appears to have taken for-
ever to hit the shelves.
The reason is, apparently, a
simple matter of a pro-
tracted development
period. No one really
knew what they
wanted so ideas were
bounced around until
someone saluted It •
playing havoc with
their metaphors.
At the time of writ-
ing. Birds of Prey Is
scheduled for release
around November. To
placate you should
you desperately
require some Informa-
tion to get through to the final
release day, allow Chris
Humphries, designer and writer
on the project, to offer a few
words of wisdom.
The most obvious first question
being - what is Birds of Prey,
Chris?
It is a combat flight simulator
whkh allows you to fly 40 differ-
ent types of aircraft on 12 differ-
ent types of mission in a fictitious
world consisting of airbases and
aircraft carriers, cities, roads,
rivers, that kind of thing."
"It allows you to choose what-
ever type of mission you'd like to
fly - bombing, air interception, air
superiority, tank busting, etc. You
can also choose what type of air-
craft you want to do It in.
Although we try to help people to
choose an appropriate aircraft '
up to them to make their «•
choice. They can then load •
whatever weapons they thine. *•
appropriate and then go off »•
do It"
Fictitious It may be but ts
a real background scenario?
"Not really. Although the *
craft featured are real It doe»»
Involve real countm
There are just two ssdr
You choose which s-
you want to be on m
you then fight on tr
side. You try and tip r
balance of power *
your human element
"The game can eftpjj
T ' run by Itself, w*m-
both sides make att»
on each other. You r
and assist your side*
give them the edge."
This game is not p*
a simple matter of e«»
pletlng a list of missions. Th*
are a variety of dynamic eieme-
incfuded. This is because you »
be taking part in a fully fledf*
battle. So, while you are hrrt**
enemy aircraft and bases your
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World Class Rugby.
Hmmm, sounds a brt like
World Cup Rugby If you
ask me. And. my word if it isn t the
Rugby World Cup this month, well
knock me down with a feather and call
me Susan if that isn't one of the most
remarkable coincidences this century.
And bugger me if there isn I another
rugby game reviewed next month. How
do I know? I'm psychic that's how.
Rugby to the unintoated is a complex
game - hundreds of rules make up the
sport, covenng every possible situation
But ft isn't realty necessary 10 know more
than the basics if you want to play or
watch a game
This version, by all accounts, tries to
take in all of the basics and some of the
more complex ones, but to Include
every single rule and couple it with the
infallible logic of a computer would
mean that you might as well start carv-
ing a headstone for payability right
now Fortunately you don I have to.
The match can be a friendly, in the
league, then the League Cup or the
World Cup The four opbons give
the opportunity to play loads of o
nents in all sorts of environments
the chance to fight your way to the
in three very different arenas
On the pitch at any one time you
have fifteen men - eight forwards
seven backs - ihe forwards being
ones who make up the scrum. The i
is basically to run up the field with
oval ball, get it behind the goal
touch it down. The problem is that
cannot pass it forward - it must
be passed to someone behind
This son of sport invorves heavy
tact which may mean that the ball gi
trapped under a pile of men and i
game effectively gnnds to a halt. Th*
where the scrum comes in. or rf
one was at fault vanous penalties
scrum, or the ruck when the g-
hasn't been stopped, involve a
group of men being punched foi
by the waggling of your joy
Coloured arrows show the positi
the ball and whether you are in c
of il If the ball goes out of play yc
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Cance to pick one of the seven or eight
routines available which, if you gain
possession, will be tun by the computer
fi a similar way to some American Foot-
ball games.
The bait can be kicked forward down
pitch but It must not be picked up
Cr, anyone other than the locker or one
of the opposition.
The most complex rules included m
fi version revolve around offsides and
•nock ons In the full game these rules
<ause the majority of the hold-ups,
*f«ch is why rugby is given such liberal
advantage rules
Advantage is a difficult concept to
over to a computer in the way a ref-
eree would Interpret it which is why the
offside and knock on rules can be
turned off if you fancy a really fast mov-
ing game But when they are on it
doesn t make the game completely
unplayable, just a little bit more pedes-
trian
Controls are very simple. Depending
on the situation, fire will either change
the controlled player, pass, tackle or
kick Dead easy. The pitch is viewed
from either above or. a pseudo 3D that is
identical to that of John Madden s on
the Mega Drive, and it plays like a
dream
There is plenty of scope in computer
rugby for the aforementioned head-
stone but Denton Designs have man-
aged to produce a highly playable game
that should do for computerised rugby
what Kick Off did for football.
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Death is not a pleasant option. Remember,
that Is not a football bouncing down the hill
November 1991
Where would the com-
puter games industry be
if your average
boyfriend type chap behaved like he
should, kept an eye on his girlfriend
and didn't let her get kidnapped?
Lost that's where it would be There
are more games that revolve around
the idea of some guy racing around on
the metaphorical white charger »n an
attempt to rescue his bird, sorry girl,
from a fate worse than a night in the
company of John Major.
But then it is a classic ideal, a roman-
tic notion that every bloke who gets his
girls nicked by someone in a dragon
suit is going to chase after her. Lets be
honest if that sort of thing happened
today, no fancy dress party would ever
be the same again.
This kind of dilemma is what faces
Cornelius, the hero of Ocean's fairy tale
beat-'em-up. You must control Cor-
nelius as he attempts the rescue of his
dearly beloved Elisa, who has been
abducted by Necrilous the Not Very
Nice.
Now I went out with a girl called
Elisa once |no, straight up), and if it
was my Elisa that had been kidnapped
I would have paid the bugger to keep
her, not attempt to get her back. Then
it would have been straight off down
the local cattle market of a nightclub to
pick up some other gold-digging little
whore that fancied my money. Bitter?
Me? Oh no! Poor old Cornelius, under
Help your(s)elf
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your control has the happy task of
fighting his way through eight tortuous
levels of ruins, forests, swamps, and
Christ knows what else before you
even get a sniff of Necnlous' BO or the
chance to take him on in the ultimate
showdown, the final conflict etc, etc.
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led various items which you can uar
on their own or as bargaining toots m
the shop to buy some really useful
things like health to restore your
depleted energy, chain-mail to stop tnr
energy being depleted so quickly 9
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t*M bW on* carrier.
•efect! If you destroy a friendly
target it Is assumed that you have
defected. If you defect twice nei-
ther side will have you so your
f*Ot is, again, grounded.
During the game you will be
•flowed to choose a variety of dif-
ferent bases. The choice has an
affect on the gameplay. Chris:
It affects the enemy's ability to
attack you because each one has a
different set of defences and dif-
ferent strengths in terms of where
It is and how far it is from the
enemy lines."
Consequently, the mission selec-
tion is slightly altered,
"...in a sense that if you select
an aircraft carrier there are certain
missions you obviously can't do -
certain aircraft can't fly off an air-
craft carrier! That's the only restric-
tion."
Another restriction is that there
is only one generic cockpit:
To design a cockpit as detailed
as we have done would be very
difficult to do again and again for
different aircraft and have all the
artwork stored. Wed end up with
three of four more disks just to
contain it."
So there are 40 aircraft within
BOP. I guess that many readers
will be wondering just how flexi-
ble the aircraft choice is. Let Chris
explain:
"You can choose any aircraft for
any mission but it does pose
restrictions sometimes. Where It is
very silly to try and take a 747 off
an aircraft carrier, for example,
but, yes, you could take a Jumbo
Jet on an air interception. You'd
and realistic HUD overlayed on the outilde view o' yf our aircraft
probably get shot down, though,
unless you were very careful or
your wing men do all the fighting
but you wouldn't get any points
for that. The war would be fought
and you risk your home base
being destroyed and it doesn't
look too good on your record."
Speaking of which, how are the
wing men implemented?
"They will fight for you and
when you're on a bombing mission
they will protect you. You don't
communicate with them but you
know what they are going to do
in any given situation."
Wing men are nice - pity there
is no possibility of radio messages
or interaction, though.
What about the enemy's artifi-
cial intelligence (Al|?
"For Al, the enemy has a gen-
eral purpose algorithm which
allows them to taxi and take off,
lock on to targets, choose the
most appropriate target and so
on. They will always choose an air
target over a ground target even >
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•dvice io make sure you are going the
'>ght way All of these items and the
other weapons that can also be bought
can only be obtained if the correct
'.election of items has been picked up
tnrough the levels.
The items are made up of eight dif-
ferent herbs and pets The herbs range
from Stinking Toadflax |mmmm) to
Sony Nutwert |sounds painful) or from
Purple Berry Grump to Brown Horse
Root all of which sound anything but
peasant to the nose. The pets are these
'ather charming little creatures that lie
around the level just begging to be
picked up in the same manner as some
of the girls at that disco I mentioned.
One of the really nice features is the
Cuteness Rating This is an index figure
that shows how many cute characters
you have shot during the course of the
game. As far as I am concerned the
more the better.
This eight-way scrolling platform/
'j^wt-'emup/exploration type thingy ts
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shoot at
Th» quart to find Capt. Birdieye (top right) ti nearly over
one of those actually quite good non-
licenced products that Ocean have
been known to chuck out every once
in a while. It is really good fun with
loads of little puzzles that should keep
the most hardened platformer going
for ages.
Jools
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firit level In full
Invincible
3000. by the way. It steams ato**
at about 30 to 40 frames a tm
ond! We think it is the fast**
Amiga 3000 program that you <m
get at the moment. All veloch*
and acceleration are independe-
of the frame rate, however. So y»
don't experience an unplayat
game. As far as sound goes,
Amiga has very nice stereo effer
- produced by Giles Goddarfl
which include doppler iWf
effects."
Doppler shift effects are sour*
special effects that give you th*
distinctive "Wwwhhoooossse
hhh!' sound of a missile appro
ing. zipping past, and careerm
I don't care how Stealthy It If, no-one o»
that ihip ii going to mr»i that plane
> if they've been given a ground tar-
get as their main mission because
that represents the greatest
threat. They can only launch mis-
siles that that particular aircraft
type carries. In dogfight situations
they vary their manoeuvring based
on what you're doing, to a certain
extent.''
Although Birds of Prey is far
down the line regarding develop-
ment there are many tactical ele-
ments that have still to be
decided. For example, Chris was
still to decide whether you should
be allowed to attack city areas to
affect morale/factory manpower
and so on. So extra features may
appear - or disappear! - in the
final version that have not been
mentioned within this article.
Release will be Amiga first.
There are slight worries, on my
part, regarding the basic Amiga
500 version, though. As simula-
tions increase in complexity the
frame rate plays havoc with the
gameplay. How has this problem
been tackled?
We have a completely
selectable range of detail - so it
will be a trade off between
graphic detail and speed. BOP has
also been debugged on an Amiga
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The Hnt baie you will come across contain! a pub and i trading computer
idway through the 21st
century, man has finally
mastered the technology
required for travel to, and colonisation
of, distant planets. The first starship,
Daedalus I, set off in the year 2052
heading for Wolf 359. a small red star
some 8. 1 years away from Earth.
As the scientists arrived some gener-
ations later they discovered that the
dual star solar system was entirely
devoid of planets. There was no more
in that solar system than a large num-
ber of asteroid belts. On closer Inspec-
tion rt appeared that among the aster-
oids there flew thousands of tiny craft
aufomaocaUy controlled mining vessels.
It seems the previous colonists has
destroyed alt the planets so that they
could mine more efficiently.
Daedalus I headed for the only
lump of rock bigger than an asterotd
but smaller than a planet, a moon that
no longer had a planet to orbit. This
moon, christened Frontier Alfa, was
inhabited by a race of independent,
capitalist and unscrupulous robots and
their creators the Remusians. The
Remusians were small bug-eyed
humanolds who took a much less
active role in the colony than the
Roboforms.
The Earth starship was soon cap-
tured by the Remusians. who enslaved
the human habitants. Some of them
escaped capture however, and estab-
lished a small colony of their own.
They set you up as a trader, with the
ultimate aim of making enough profit
to be able to buy the whole colony
and become supreme leader, thereby
being able to free the enslaved
humans.
This 3D vector graphics-based
games combines violence and trading
on a planet's surface, in the classic for-
mula that was pioneered by Elite In
deep space. In Moonfall though, the
gameplay is more regimented than the
random nature of other games.
Ten missions lie m wait for you. ten
objectives that must be completed
very successfully so that the maximum
gain Is made from each, whether It be
a reward for capturing an outlaw, or
I hope I break my leg...
The trading room hat been admired far
and wide for iti simplicity
profit for some shrewd trading.
Outlaws are something of problem
They are all too keen on trying to hijaflfc
your cargo and possibly your ship. Thtj
reason the moon attracts so many ouK
laws is that the Roboforms don't can|
what they buy and sell, immoral
amoral or just plain dirty. If it presents *
chance to make a profit they will go fdtj
«. The majority of the missions coniot
of some reasonably derring-do ty
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16 (. iAMER Horemcr 1991
wtf into the distance.
Hrdi of Prey appears to offer a
ake blend of variety, choice,
• icitement and attention to
detail. Check out the bottom line
during the full game review in
your super soaraway Amiga Com-
puting - coming soon!
The graphic! may well be simple but there it 10 much
elie going on thai complex graphici would ilow it down
Notice how the Sleatlh lighter cunningly blendi in with iti
background. They don't call it Stealth lor nothing
The good looking chap will be happy Co
lake your orderi
m
A map.
however naff.
Ii alwayi uieful
stuff - rescuing hostages, meeting
avengers from a crime organisation, all
sorts of stuff. But the trading remains
the bread and butter of the gamepiay.
Gameplay is the main problem with
this game. There is far too much long
distance flying involved as you travel
from city to city, base to base, with
nothing of Interest in-between save for
loads of stone pinnacles. Trading is
slow and labonous and if you do occa-
sionally happen across another vessel
and try to engage in battle it turns into
a stand off
Just facing each other and shooting
is hardly the most enjoyable shoot out
I've ever seen. The simplicity of the vec-
tor graphics is forgivable if they have
been deliberately sacrificed for speed,
but sadly this is not the case.
Speed seems to have been sacri-
ficed for something else, but I'd eat my
horse if anyone ever finds exactly what
rt is. The landscapes are drap and bor-
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littered wrth men
fascinating oojetti
ing and the interiors of the bases are
drab beyond belief. You enter the "pub"
to glean some info but it looks just like
every other room - only when you
logon to the computer do you get
asked for a drink, in a separate interfac-
>€-
ing screen. Surely a sprite-based
sequence would have been better than
an empty room with a computer at the
far end?
Moonfail is essentially a wasted idea.
The theory behind it is good but rt is so
poorly implemented that it just does
not bear thinking about But if you are
In the mood for something restful this
may be the one to consider. Did I say
restful? I think I meant steep Inducing.
Jooli
November 1991
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Gods and Lemmings have contin
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the charts and they should drag
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with them.
One of the greatest shoot- em
ups of all time. Blood Money. Is
there at number 24 on Ihe bud
gel label Haters, I fully expect I
this to climb steadily tor a few I
months once people catch on lo I
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Pleeeeaie rebate me, let me go! The Bitmap KM geU trapped
by the hitler bubble that appears If you loiter too long
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The Kid* just trapped a mail In one of hli trouier
tornado i. If he popi It, hell get a preuie
Loo* before you leap. A TV will crop up every
now and then to ihow you what to expect
wjf ' we*
Pockets, eh? What bloomm
marvellous little fellas they are.
Why, if it weren't for pockets
then the fabnc of our society would fall
to pieces Kangaroos would be pretty
useless without pockets, and snooker
players would be scuppered as well
Just imagine: a world without kanga-
roos or snooker.
Oh Not so bad is it? So pockets
aren't really that wonderful an? they? In
fact they're not worth bothering with
at all. So. enough banter, ler/s get on
and check out the latest Bitmap offer-
ing
ft would appear that I m not the only
person to have problems of a pocket
nature. The Bitmap Kid is having trouser
receptacle bothers as well. You see,
Bitty has been blessed with, yes you
guessed it. Magic Pockets.
Just what's magic about them? Well,
they're big. Very big. Magically big in
fact. Just like the Tardis, the Kid's pock-
ets are a lot bigger on the inside than
they would at first appear.
As well as having pockets that defy
the laws of physics, they also have an
equally spooky ability to provide the Kid
with whatever objects he desires. For
example, if he's lounging in the sun
and he feels a tad thirsty, he plunges
his hand into his pocket and produces a
refreshing, cool can of Fizzy Trendy Pop
dnnk. Great eh?
Of course, there's a downside to all
this pantaloon japery. It would appear
finds himself in a world totally ur
any he has ever known. A world f«
lated by strange beasts and biz/
landmarks.
It's Ashion under Lyne on a Sa~
mghtl Except It's not. it's four lever,
scrolling platform action played ove>
separate sub-sections, with one
located on each level. And so we
to The Game.
Yes, it's a Bitmap Brothers co
lion, and yes it's flaming marvellous
with Gods, the bruvs have taken
standard platform formula and ad
little twist to make it a completely
ent game from every other platforms
A lot of the innovations found
Gods crop up here too. albeit m
slightly bigger way, out we'll get to1
later. First of all, before we get into
the complicated bits, let's take a
at how the game looks as a platfo
The screen layout will be familiar
anyone who's played a platform
- and let's face it. that's practi'
everyone. You have the main cr
complete with a springy wee ju
some platforms to Jump on to,
bogeymen to try and stop him, and
exrt at the end of the level.
That's where the similarities end
Bitmap Ktd can fight back with a
of weapons from his infamous
On level one, he fires whirlwinds,
two brings clouds, the third level has
btodu and the final level has snowball.
Like R-Type. he can fire at dou.
Have a rum
MAGI
that the Kid has accidentally lost four of
his favourite toys dans la poche and
now he wants them back. And what
better way to do this than to whip a
black hole out of his kecks and leap in
after his beloved playthings?
Well, he could just pop down to Toys
R Us and buy some new ones. No?
Please yourselves. Once inside his
trousers - calm down at the back - he
He i found hit bike, to now tfi time for a qukfc race to the exit
RENEGADE ■ £25.
strength by holding down the fire
ton that little bit longer. This unleas
an extra large whirlwind/cloud/ic
block/snowball which will trap the
bes. Rainbow Islands-style
These extra strength power ups aoft]
have a second purpose, depending ow
which level you are on. For instance, oal
level one the whirlwinds can be used si
fling the Kid all over the screen allow-
ing him to reach higher platforms A
sprinkling of tactical planning will be!
required to puzzle your way out of c&-\
tain situations, so don't disengage your
brain when you pick up the joystick.
The sub-levels within each mam or*
are designed so that no two levels w*
play alike. Some require you to navigate
mazes of interlinked platforms, othen;
demand quick reflexes, and others cat
upon puzzle solving skills.
At the end of each main level, there
is a bonus one which involves using the
toy you retrieved from that level in some
son: of test These range from the ret*
trvety normal, such as a bike race, to the
positively bizarre: try a boxing match
with a gorilla.
All of these titde touches help to keer-
the game fresh and exciting by chang-
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The third level takei you to the likes,
where you muit freeze the water to
cron. But if you had a diving helmet...
Aaargh! It J The Snowmjn.1
That pathetic little egg U
trying to reach me but can't
quite make It 'cm hei a weed
the Bitmap's pockets
1/2 meg ■ Joystick ■ Out now
ng the formula every time you play.
And that's it more or less. There are
more "little touches* than you could
7w*e a very large stick at but you'll just
nave to take my word for it.
As you can see from the screenshots,
W graphics are excellent. There are lit-
erally hundreds of sprites, and thou-
sands of rooms - or so the Bitmaps
claim, but who's counting? - all of them
**deri with detail. Each of the 'our levels
represents a different environment and
the screens change to reflect this. From
underground caverns to snow covered
mountain peaks, via the jungle and the
lakes, the graphics remain at the highest
standard
Trie bonng teeny stuff l*e animation
and scrolling is brilliant as well tn case
you were interested. You probably could
have guessed that though.
Soundwise too, things are as hot n
mm
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Mubba hubba! A quick chew of gum and the Kid can float to the
sarti other ipritei cannot reach. EeekJ encept the bats
spicy as those bits they put on pizzas to
burn your mouth when you least expect
it The music is provided by that stormin'
rap vixen. Betty Boo.
Perhaps if s a bit of a shame that just
as the game was being completed, Ms
Boo got booed off stage for numing. but
that's the way the cookie crumbles
Whether or not you're a Boo fan, the
music is great and suits the game per-
fectly.
Thankfully you only hear that cheery
"Doing the Do" refrain at the end of
each level, otherwise there could be a
lot of unnecessary violence committed
against innocent loudspeakers. In game
we are treated to some ecjually wen suit-
ed FX, with little voices going "Yeah"
when you get a power-up and so forth.
And it's all very, well... bouncy really.
OK, now comes the bit where we
find out just what the Bitmaps have
done to make the game different.
Remember in Gods how some of the
nasties were intelligent? well, the same
applies in Pockets, except that now we
have many different grades of nasty.
Some are passive and won't harm
you unless you actually walk into them,
others are aggressive and pelt after you
the minute they spot you, while some of
them are really vicious and will attack
from off screen and follow you every-
where you go
Some of the baddies are weak and
can't get over the obstacles in your way.
and some are even better at jumping
than you and can scale even the most
daunting walls. This system means that
you'll never be able to waltz through
Pockets just because you know when to
expect the enemy. Pretty damn clever,
huh?
Another new Bitmap invention is the
gradeable power-up. By killing nasties
you can decide what power-ups you get
when you trap a nasty. The more nasties
you kill, the better the power-up when
you trap and burst your next foe. Cun-
ning or what? This isn't just a gimmick
either, as later levels require you to plan
carefully what power-ups you II use and
when - rf you're to stand a cat in hell's
chance of finishing it
That, in the space allowed, is as
much of the game as I can tell you
about. Suffice it to say that I didn't have
room to tell you about the secret rooms
full of bonuses, the fun reward bits
when you're totally invincible and can
just leap about killing things, the ability
to kill nasties by tumbling on to them,
the TV sets that give you a sneak pre-
view of what's around the next comer,
the bubble gum machines that allow
you to float up to platforms, the plants
that can be watered to grow into new
platforms and the assorted helmets that
give you all manner of special powers.
Phew!
Yep, Magic Pockets is a big, big game
and one that should keep most people
glued to their joysticks for weeks on
end. Those Bitmaps have done It again.
What next? A Bitmap beat-'em-up with
an S-Xpress soundtrack? We can but
dream...
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Welcome to Metro City. Not a nice place to live, but great for beating people up
Guy and Cody get stuck In fight at the start o( level on*
etro City has gone a bit
downhill. Only a bit.
mind you. It used to be
plagued by crime and corruption.
Those foolhardy souls who dared walk
the streets at night got mugged, then
the muggers got robbed, then the rob-
bers got beaten up. and so it went on.
Decent folk moved away, and come
to think of it. the indecent folk moved
away as well Nope, Metro City really
was a pretty nasty place to be.
Then the Mad Gear Gang arrived...
Cursed with the most pathetic gang
name since The Jets" in West Side Story
they vented their rage against the paral-
ysed city. They terrified people with
their close harmony renditions of
Leonard Bernstein songs and bribed the
mayor to allow them to carry out their
nefanous deeds without recrimination.
Let s face it. they took the place over.
Then the mayor mysteriously vanished,
and the city looked for a new hero to
nd them o' the Mad Gears. This hero
came in the imposing shape of Mike
Haggar.
Haggar. quite handily, happened to
be an ex-wrestter and street fighter (as
well as having a wonderful singing
voice and a penchant for Shakespeare-
an verse).
He refused to bow down to the Mad
Gears' offers of bribery and corruption,
so rhey kidnapped his lovely daughter.
Jessica.
•What a drag", thinks Haggar. "Still,
sounds like an excuse to walk the
streets and kick the hell out of everyone
I meet.' And that's exactly what he
does.
Meanwhile, over in the gym. Guy
and Cody are discussing the pros and
cons of having immensely stereotyped
butch yankee names when the phone
nngs. 'Jessica's been kidnapped,' says
Cody in a blinding Rash of lateral think-
ing, "My sweetheart since childhood."
he adds to clarify what little plot there
is, "She's my friend too." pipes up Guy,
feeling a little left out Cos he's fancied
Jessica for ages and only ever kissed her
once (when she was drunk at the annu-
al Street Fighters Xmas Bad).
By a blinding stroke of
luck, Guy and Cody are
more than a little adept at the
old martial arts. Yes, Guy and
Cody just happen to be a cou-
ple of black belt ninja types,
which Is just as well cos
otherwise they'd
heads kicked in, wouldn't they? So,
pausing only to style their hair, they set
off to join Haggar for a relaxing spot of
urban violence.
It's here that you come In. You must
take control of one of the three heroes,
or two of them if you can con your mate
into joining in, and guide them through
19 (very short! levels of highly pre-
dictable beat-'em-up action.
Their noble quest will take them from
the filthy back streets of Metro City,
through the subway, into a wrestling
ring (for some inexplicable reason) and
every other typical setting for a beat-
em-up before they reach
Jessica.
Unfortunately, they
LLL also reach the bloke
^5kL^pL responsible, if not
downright guilty, for
lumbering the Mad
Gears with such a
A M. duff name
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The darts players from Het
attack In a gut busting charge. *
couple of slaps In the fate *■*
they topple over thouf
The "big" end of level naity. Jut'
keep punching him to win.
Tactics or what?
Tis the Mad Gear ganglord. a sints»r
geezer in a wheelchair with a harprxr
gun.
The first thing to strike you abov
Final Fight is the graphics. They're mm
we. and colourful to boot, and are pro
ty much identical to the coin-op. Tht
enemy are vaned and look really mear
The backgrounds are also nicely re*
dered. although there is no way to n»
act with them by swinging from lar»
posts and climbing on crates and st
forth.
The animation on the characters I
surprisingly fluid but with several &sj
spntes on screen they start
to slow down. How-
ever, the game's
biggest plus is
also its undoing.
The spntes are so
big that they mean
any real control over
the action is point-
Ws. Once the action starts all the bad-
ges crowd around you and the only
*ay to get out is to just frantically
punch and kick in all directtons
One flying kick and you can take
*)wn everyone in your path. Even the
biggest baddies are a cinch (o beat.
*/ith Mile or no ladies required This
means that on your first go you II proba-
Wy play most of the game, if not com-
plete it Ho hum.
Putting that gripe aside for the
•noment. the sound is pretty well exe-
cuted with the arcade music playing
over the now essential opening story-
Ooard. The effects are OK, but to be
'onest, they're just too derivative. You
get the standard thump and crunch
noises whenever anything gets hit.
The subway section offers some
•espite with a great reproduction of a
vain noise clacking away in the back-
jround. but apart from that there's
nothing new. It would have been nice
lo hear the swishing of the lead pipe as
you swing it, or some speech dotted
about but. alas, it was not to be. Techni-
cally speaking it s a major achievement.
The graphics are excellent and the
sounds are well above average for this
sort of game, but there's just no chal-
lenge whatsoever when playing it
OK, now all the macho men reading
can skip this bit as it probably won't
apply to you. but for the more sensitive
among you there's also the Question of
morals. Don't get me wrong, oeat-'env
ups are fine by me. Target Renegade on
the humble
Speccy was
the bees
knees as
far as I
am con-
cerned -
after all.
its only a
game, right? But a game where you
have to beat up women with lead pipes,
vandalise cars and assault cripples may
just be stepping over the mark slightly
It's up to you whether or not this both-
ers you. but some may find the mdis-
cnminate brutality a little startling Just
thought Id warn you, being the caring.
90s kind of guy that I am
Getting back to my major grumble
though, it's just so easy! It shouldn't take
your average gamesplayer longer than
an evening to play the game from start
lo finish.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 25
nicker a bit steep for a game that proba-
bly won t remain challenging for more
than an hour or so?
I suppose if you re new to beat em
ups Final Fight is a relatively untaxing
introduction to the genre, or maybe
you re looking for a really easy game to
massage your ego a bit If that's the
case, Final Ftght should suit you
Haggar gets a bit bored
with beating up the bad
guys and decides to wipe
that sulky look off Cody's
faee. Hurrah (or Haggar!
down to the ground, but l think most
people would be happier with some-
thing with a bit more wallop to it. Rent a
couple of Jean Claude Van Damme
movies instead. They're cheaper, just as
violent, and they'll probably last longer
as well
Daniel Whitehead
s i o M
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The sprites ere hug* and vtry
dose to the arcade Visually,
final Rg M B a treat
Typical beat-'em-up FX and a
neat rendition of 9*
eoln-op music
$» L A V JK B I L I
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The almost pathetkatfy easy
gamepBy means that boredom
soon sets In.
Good fun n the Won i
Final Fight has the long l
appeal of i dead haddoo
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November 1991
You may not have noticed,
but Robin Hood is pretty hoi
property these days. A few
years ago he was just a bloke who wore
green leg warmers and a stupid hat in
some distant age. remembered orrty In
songs sung by bearded men in real ale
pubs with Aran sweaters and fisher
mens' smocks, then suddenly he was
transformed overnight into an interna-
tional film star and all round celeb
All I can say is that tf s a good ihing
that Robin Hood looked l*e Kevin Cosi-
ner, or they'd have had to get someone
else for the film, and then where would
he be?
Needless to say. this game has noth-
ing to do with "Prince of Thieves*,
although there is a competition to win
the video included with the game, but is
instead based on the OWe English leg-
ends that spawned the original Robyn o'
the Hoode. So don't expect to find Hol-
lywood style stunts and chases, like the
film That's not to say that the game Is
without action, but It's action of a more
sedate kind
The game places you in the slightly
sweaty tunic of Monsieur Hood, and
asks that you merely elevate him to level
of International Folk Hero Ho ho ho.
That should be easy, thought I, I'll Just
clobber some Normans, snog Marian
and be home In time for a slap-up meal
of dead stag. Oh boy, was I wrong. Let's
take my first game as an example.
I started off happily enough, sat in
my castle having a good old knees up
with the Sherwood Posse. Then the
Sheriff of Nottingham booted me out
and made me an outlaw. I hung around
for a bit thinking it might be some mas-
sive medieval Jeremy Beadle type prank,
but twas not.
So, there I was. An outlaw So I shot
a few arrows around, got into a fight
with a soldier and died. Not really an
auspicious start for the Champion of the
Oppressed, eh? What had gone wrong?
My first impressions of Robin Hood
were 'Look s like loads of fun. but what
the hell am I supposed to do?*. The
Instructions don't give anything away,
merely telling you that there are many
To assist you In your green stockinged gallavantlng. Gamer now
presents the guide to gorgeous Icons
BOW AND AffltOW
Oddly enough. Ihli will make
Robm fire an mow In the direction he ii facing.
SWORD
Click on tWi and Own on a person and Robin will lay Into
them with nil chopper |fnar|.
screen a little further In the direction Robin U
i. to .How you 10 see what liei ahead.
HEART
For tome reaion thu Inducci Robin to break into a run. Per-
haps AD Bran would be more appropriate?
Chck on thil and then on penon and Robin will tickle them
with hii silver tongue |ahern|.
OPEN HAND
The Be nke^ icon, click on thii. then a penon and Robin
win be nice to them
CLOSE HAND
The ~Sptfl my pint" Ken. Clicking on thii and a perion makei
Robin threaten them
ways to end the game, some are fail-
ures, others are minor successes, or you
could go the whole hog and kill the
Sheriff, get the girl and save the world.
My first few endings were of the
"complete and utter failure' type, with
the peasants sniggenng at me and call-
ing me names. After a bit of experimen-
tation though, I started lo get the hang
of it. I mel Maid Marian (and even man-
aged to snog her J, I Joined forces with
Will Scarlet and even killed the Shenff
with a lucky arrow Then I got beaten
up by loads of soldiers and died. But it
was too late, I was hooked.
Control of Robin is earned out via
mouse and icons, in a manner similar to
PowerMonger. You select the acbon
you want and then click on the person
or object you wish to act upon. It's a
tned and tested formula, and it works
quite well. There are times, however,
when it can cause trouble For instance,
you have to click on two icons to run
away from a soldier when he takes you
prisoner, and by the time you've done
thai you could well be dead. There's
also a rather odd feature that means
that sometimes Robin ignores what
you ask him to do and does what he
wants Instead. This means that you
can't afford to leave him alone in
case he strolls off to get himself
killed while you make a
cuppa.
The icons available
are your basic "fight",
"talk", "walk* variety,
although other magical
icons can be collected
Magic? Yup, magic In this Robin
Hood tale, the forces of Heme
the Forest God are In play to
give you magic rings and crys-
tals to help you on your way.
Another decidedly un-Robm
icon is the "fireball* which can
obtained from a dragon (?) to alio*
to strike your enemy down with
Very handy for getting nd of the
mans, that one.
The graphics are a bit on the
side and Robin often blends m wrm
green backgrounds, but the lack of
means that there's plenty of memory
for those cute little touches that
these sort of games special.
The people in this game are
independent. Each lives t
own life, and you can watch f
do it.
Some of the little scenes
can stumble across are a
lutely brilliant such as
funeral (complete
solemn music), the
ants poaching stag,
the rather saucy m
taking a revealing
in the river.
The sound b-
up Ihe graph
touches perf-
The tunes are
derfully medi
with flutes
trumpets all
3
Btll rr.uei. ahec tbill n h — I* ff«rt?
Tired of playing "Catch
The Giblets", the Merry
Men took for a new
hobby
H1 ai)^ H
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sir
Some of Robin's
best friends
were trees you I
know |
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A look at the status screen reveals that Robin s a bit of a villain at the moment
lyt; Mhot is th n<i»i5
(*n Robin *etualry mink that MarUn will fall for this drivelT
An Englishman i home ti hli carte, at lun until the Sheriff nichi ft off you
De shop, and there are plenty of them.
Try having a chat with the Minstrel and
wing If he'll do requestsi The sound
effects are great too. if a iittle thin on
the ground The church bells and castle
trumpets are especially worm a mention
as they give you hints as to what's going
on m other parts of the land.
Don t think that this is a one man job
though. To survive in Sherwood you'll
need to make plenty of friends, and
Kep the peasants on your side. Giving
:nem money is a good way to boost
rt)ur popularity, but you'll have to pinch
where the others are. I haven't got the
foggiest. I think I've spotted Fnar Tuck
trundling around, but I can't get him to
join me That's one of the strengths of
this game. There's no lack of things to
do. There will arways be someone to talk
to or fight with, the question is which
do you do, and to which people?
The game is not without its problems.
As I said before, controlling Robin is
sometimes a chore, especially when he
decides to do his own thing and tries to
sneak back into his castle. Another sticky
patch comes when you try and use your
up his cash before he legged it into the
castle, but my arrow missed by miles
and killed Maid Manan as she stepped
out for a morning stroll. I was gutted I
can tell you.
While I'm in a niggly mood, just a
quick moan about the stupid way that
icons become unusable for a short time
once selected. I can't understand why
Robin has to hang around waiting to be
able to speak again when he's chatting
up Marian
It's at its worst when you get taken
prisoner and find you can't escape
because the fight icon can't be selected.
Quite why this happens is beyond me.
as it simply serves to spoil the flow of
the game
So, summing up time. Robin Hood is
a novel and reasonably effective way of
converting a tnrty subject to computer.
It s a good fun game with plenty of
scope and tons of testability, but it's
slightly marred by some silly iittle bugs.
Not quite the stuff that Gamer Golds are
made of. but well worth a look all the
same.
Daniel Whitehead
He's bold, he's brave, he's very very good. He's
ROBIN HOOD
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c off the rich first Somewhere along the
Ine, you'll have to try and gather the
I Merry Men together as well As a bit of
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Quality of life is one of
those nebulus ideas that is
very difficult to quantify,
let alone try and maintain at a high
level for any period of time. You try
being a Prime Minister and see how
you get on. Attaining a high quality of
life is the main aim Behind Gremlin's
first foray into the world of God games.
The approach they have adopted
pitches the game somewhere in the
land between Populous and Sim-City,
fighting an opponent while you
attempt to develop a viable city with all
its attendant problems of taxation, pop-
ulation control, crime and who cleans
up when the neighbour's dog craps In
your garden.
You begin your life as commander of
your first planet with little but a com-
mand centre, a few solar panels, a load
of cash, a group of advisers and very lit-
tle else. The Quality of life begins at a
meagre 40 per cent, and it is up to you
to try and develop the city to a large
bustling hubbub of parties and orgies,
and organise an efficient workforce in
between - sounds remarkably like
being the editor of Gamer.
All sorts of things affect the QOL
anything from the view from the Irving
quarters to taxation to how much food
is available. Just runts are given in the
manual, so only through playing and
experimentation will you find out all the
answers.
The first action you will probably
wish to perform is a wee bit of con-
struction. You have a choice of 24 dif-
ferent buildings, too many to list
Individually, which fall into loose cate-
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gories. Resource-generating buildings,
such as mines and chemical plants,
must be built near appropriate
resources to be effective, although
power stations and similar electrical
installations can be placed anywhere
you like. In any case, planning is proba-
bly wise to maximise the efficiency of
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distribution of electricity to other build-
ings.
The next general category includes
manufactunng installations. These make
use of the resources to produce crucial
Items like tanks or food, viol to the sur-
vival of the colony and if neglected,
guaranteed to send the QOL figure
plummeting.
The final category includes those
installations that actually improve the
QOL as opposed to maintaining it. Food
stores, stadiums, life-support systems,
hospitals and fixed defence units like
laser turrets are included here, and must
be placed and used judiciously to max-
imise their effect.
For example a large event at the sta-
dium will improve morale, an important
factor in the QOL equation, but because
everyone is off watching the gamta
then the work rate will drop A hospc* |
is not essential but it will allow you
directly control the birth rale, and it 1
allow the population to recover
quickly from the effects of a virus,
example
For the installations to be of any ust|
they must be manned by colonists up i
the maximum allowed - usually arc
ten per installation. You are perfectly
liberty to use less than this numt
should you feel that maximum pfoc
tion is not essential at any particut
time, but it is also crucial that pre
tion levels are monitored so that
can up levels at any time should they
required Not only do che installation^
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of buildings, installations and ore deposits
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need manning, but construction will
also occupy the colonists. It Is entirely
likely that a large number of
fully-manned installations could mean
that construction will not be possible,
Decause all the available men are busy
elsewhere.
Juggling manpower is one problem,
out so is juggling your budget. Taxation
levels must be set but an eye must be
<ept on the long-term effects on the
QOL - nobody likes heavy taxation, no
■natter what the reason.
Also, grants for civilian and military
development must be closely monitored.
A high grant to the military will provide
fast development of new weapons, but
\ may not make the population too
nappy if they haven't yet got a sports
stadium. Of course, too low a grant will
mean that the military is under-devel-
oped, making the cotony vulnerable to a
more advanced attack.
Control of your military is just as vital
a part of the game as constructing a
well ordered and shiny, happy city.
Organising the static defence systems,
such as laser turrets and missile launch-
ers, is only one part. The other is the
construction, control and deployment of
the mobile forces.
Initially, the decision will lie in how
much manpower you are willing to
commit to the factories producing the
equipment, and which type of vehicle
you want to produce - the more
advanced, the longer it takes and the
more resources it will use.
Once you have built up your stock-
pile of equipment, decisions have to be
made as to where it will be placed and
how it will be manouevred. At your dis-
posal you have eight markers which can
be strategically placed anywhere on the
map and used to guide the tanks and
aircraft around the play area, by send-
ing one or a group to any one of the
markers. They can also be guided to
JiF1 & Q.
Scaffolding ihowi new building Being conttructed
attack an enemy city, although the loca-
tion of this will not become known to
you unless you sponsor spying activity,
another demand on your stretched bud-
get
There is no way of individually con-
trolling the tanks or aircraft. The only
control you have lr of general move-
ment patterns, as all of the attack
responses are automated. Defence may
seem an unnecessary burden on a bud-
get which could be better devoted to
improving the QOL but it will never be
very high if the colony is overrun by
aliens.
To help you make these weighty
decisions are a panel of advisers. The
advisers give Information about each of
the different aspects of the colony -
population, budget number of manu-
facturing installations, morale etc - and
will occasionally give recommendations.
Simple things like: "We need more food
ya buggal" will not appear, but more
succinct hints will be apparent.
It all sounds very complex and it is,
but this is the next generation of
God-games and will appeal to those
who have successfully met the challenge
of Sim-City and Populous and are look-
ing for something more challenging to
take them on to the next level of game-
play.
It skilfully combines both the con-
straints of building a city that can be
happily lived m with the problems of try-
ing to defeat a malevolent opponent
and all the time you have to try and
keep every one happy by not over-
spending and leaving everyone to
starve.
There is no fixed objective to aim for.
no timespan across which your efforts
are measured. The only target ts a Quab-
ty of Life which reaches above and
beyond 90%.
But its complexity does not make it
difficult to use,. Simple point and click
systems and an isometric large-scale
map mean that the game's system
becomes almost second nature after a
period of familiarisation
Don't make the mistake of comparing
this game to Image Work's Mega Lo
Mama, one of last issue's Gamer Golds -
they are very different to one another.
MLM is far less complex and geared to
fun and humour, while providing a
large amount of challenge and a fabu-
lous game
Utopia goes for the more involved
and time-consuming approach which
has no definite answers. It doesn't have
that many definite questions to be hon-
est. And it will provide hundreds of
hours of brain-blowing to those willing
to invest the time needed to be success-
ful. They are both excellent games
doing two different things.
The crisp and colourful graphics are
easy on the eye and the sound is quite
simply superb - a dramatic tune coupled
with stunning effects make it worth
turning the sound up. Quite simply
Gremlin have produced a very slick
package which takes the notion of con
trolling and developing a city or planet
one stage further than anything before.
Be warned however - it may be easy
to use, but it is anything but easy to
beat. If you can't Invest the time need-
ed, think carefully before purchasing.
This isn't a criticism, merely something to
be aware of. But whether you have the
time or not, this is a game worthy of
Thomas More's legacy.
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Filled Vector
Designer
Disk 1197 - 17-Bit Software
If you want a really meaty PD utility,
you'll go a long way before you come
across anything as powerful in perfor-
mance, and yet as hopelessly
unfriendly, as The Special Brothers
designer prog.
You want ordinary vectors, filled vec-
tors, bobs? You've come to the right
place. Readable instructions, a clear info
panel, sensible operation and user
friendly interface? Forget it
There's a nice demo showing what
the designer can do, and there are
copious instructions detailing how to
design the aforementioned objects and
incorporate them into the Red Sector
Demo Maker and your own programs.
Unfortunately, the typeface is almost
filled V«fw Drtignt Powerful (hjI MMMd)
unreadable, with several anonymous
characters, and it Is rather crude in
operation.
Basically the program lets you
arrange and manipulate points in all
three dimensions The points are con-
nected, then the side or face is filled.
Various tricky manipulations can be
performed on your object until at last
you have a finished product that can be
saved m a variety of different ways.
The programmers themselves admit
that it is an unfnendly program
but a quite powerful - they claim
design of the Maximum
Overdrive demo was achieved
with this very utflrty.
St*, if you are willing to get to
grips with it. It's worth a try,
especially if you already have the
Red Sector demo maker.
Llamatron
Disk 1249 - 1? '-Bit Software
Minter goes shareware! Yup, age-
ing hippy |eff Minter has pul out
his latest pixeloid opus on share-
ware. In this latest offering you'
see an idealised view of the industry
that guarantees that Jeff won't be work-
ing for any major software houses, and
then you're into the game itself. If you
like it. it's five quid to llamasoft,- if you
don't, then it's no loss.
Uamatron is, of course, a reworking
of Williams Robotron. Control your
llama, rescue the other llamas onscreen,
and blast all the creatures heading your
way.
Simple stuff, jazzed up with power-
ups, some pretty damn good sound
effects and tough action gameplay.
Bootblock Utilities
Disk 1211 -17-Bit Software
A handsome collection of utilities to
install on to your Workbench disk or
with any auto-booting disk you might
want to produce. There are four cate- *
Uamatron olleri good, old-fashioned blaring!
' gories, each nicely explained and
clearly set out There's stuff for the C
directory to include in your startup
sequence, for the bootbtock on disks
and for your Workbench.
In the standard C directory are stan-
dard commands such as Change
Directory, Copy, Delete, Echo (print to
screen). Text File Editor, Execute, Make
Directory, Set Map (keymaps), Set Key
(your own map), Type and Type To List
text files to the screen, and Window
Size.
Pretty routine. The more Interesting
utilities are in the next folder. Here you
can add borders, clear the screen,
check for a virus, use a simple demo
creator allied with a sound file noise-
player, show any .IFF picture on boot
^Every so often the
screen suddenly
flashes a skull at the
user while issuing a
pretty horrifying
scream ^
up, clear that pic from the screen, add
a 3D starfield, plus stripes. There's also
a couple of text message creators in
Superwriter and Rainbow Writer.
Superwriter is fairly useless since you
have the multi-coloured sequel,
Rainbow Writer, also included. The lat-
ter is also easier to use and more user
friendly. On this your message is dis-
played in one of a number of typefaces,
on top of a 3D scrolling starfield.
A nice touch is that you can change
all the colours around, and alter the
speed of the starfield between very fast
and a dead stop. There's also scrolling
messages at the bottom of the screen
which can be redefined for your own
use. While this isn't a particularly pow-
erful utility on its own, it is nice and
simple and can be added to any demo
disk with very little effort
In the bootblock folder are initial
utilities to use. There's a crude coloured
screen scroller with a semi-legible mes-
sage racing across it, a menu of
options, and something called the util-
ity boot installer.
This turns memory and disk drives
on or off, forces a hard reset and installs
itself on to standard bootblocks without
creating any damage.
This folder is really only of marginal
use since the stuff in the other folder
largely overlaps anyway. Finally there
Picture Help
Disk 125S - 17 Bit Software
Convert a picture of one resolution to another resolution. The function of this
program is simple enough, in mat for whatever reason, you can load a piccy in
one res and save it another. You can also magnify areas of the picture first,
though why bother when there's nothing you can actually do with it?
This is a shareware product from an Italian with only a vague grasp of the
English language and who requires you to send him, wait for it, £10 if you use
the program. Or you can send him £20 to receive version 2 which will include
simple art package commands. When he's written it
The commands, such as they are, are accessed by drop-down menus.
Sometimes. For some reason the program has a very hard time reading the
mouse and either doesn't produce the menu, or drops it prematurely.
The ability to change the res of pictures is a marginally useful function that is
certainly not worth £10 - and if s this kind of grasping that will kill shareware -
especially when you cannot save the altered picture with a new filename.
This is a bug admitted to by the author - a fix is promised for version 2 - but
unfortunately the program didn't work properly anyway. The file selector closed
without letting you select anything. It may just be a dodgy copy, but why take
the chance when there are alternative programs available?
are the goodies to add to Workbench.
A particularly amusing one to install on
a friend's disk - without telling them, of
course - is the Nightmare utility.
Every so often the screen suddenly
flashes a skull at the user while issuing a
pretty horrifying scream. Make sure you
turn the volume up on their Amiga,
then give them a disk with this
installed.
The other features are less practical
joke-minded: you can load a
Workbench from the CLI, change the
colour of the bar at the top of a win-
dow, make the windows zoom when
being closed, and change the look of
the forwards and backwards gadgets.
It's an interesting collection of easy
to use utilities, with some more useful
than others, but it's worth getting just
to scare the life out of an unsuspecting
friend. If you make your own demo
disks or just want to improve the front
end, the other utilities will certainly give
you your money's worth.
Computer World
Dinosaur Collection
Disk 1240 - f7-Wt Softwore
A collection of infantile humour, an old
demo with five tunes ripped from a
commercial game, a reasonable Rebels
demo with some nice music and a
the Amiga i graphics drmomtratrd to hill effect.
Tarot II
Disk I2i8 - 17-BH Software
Hmm, not a utility, not a game - more like userware. That's lo busmess. A Cancenan's phrase is "I care" apparently. Fan,
how I would describe a program offenng words of wisdom ask anyone who knows me and they'll tell you it's usually, 'I
on the signs ol the zodiac.
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it, you either dress in bed sheets and do
unpleasant things to chickens every lull
moon, or you think it's all a load ot
twaddle for impressionable idiots.
However, In the interests ol the
Amiga Computing PD column, I asked
Ihe program for the low-down on my
own sign, Cancer the crab.
Well, a nice intro followed by a mud-
dled title page, but then straight down itofiv0m iiwrt* rmjmm phrmr
it ■ -^aw
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pint".
However, my colour is supposed to be
stiver. Well, I would have said black, but
then I'm a Raiders fan, and their colours
are,., silver and black!
Colly, apparently Cancerians are also
warm and emotional, imaginative and
inspirational!
Hey, maybe there is something in this
after all. Does anyone have a spare
chicken?
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114
I decent black and white version of
Asteroids.
That's all you can really say about
this lot, except that a couple of the
selections take you back to the main
menu, but won't let you select any-
thing. There's a Robocop slideshow
consisting of one picture - albeit a
good one - and only the Asteroids
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Mech Fight
Disk 12S9 - 17-Bit Software
Obviously inspired by Mech Warrior,
Mech Fight is, in fact, nothing tike that
game of armoured mayhem. It's more a
sci-fi version of the Ultima games.
You get a top-down view with small
graphics wandering around stylised
buildings in search of weapons, goodies
and a plot
Yes, somewhat distressingly, the plot
and the raison d'etre of the game are
left for you to discover. A good prod of
the keyboard reveals unexpected
commands, the most useful of which is
pick up.
The space station - I presume this is
what it is - Is quite large and is popu-
lated by numerous facilities. There's
even a swimming pool!
The most useful place to visit is a
bookshop which contains info concern-
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Disk U616- NBS
This Is a text and graphics editor
with the ability to import different
character sets. Written by a German
there are various language versions
of the program on the disk, includ-
ing slightly dodgy English.
The text functions ot the package
are rather simple, merely incorporat-
ing disk filing and search and replace
functions, plus importing character
sets.
The printer prefs set up is poorty
presented, in broken English, so
making It work with your machine is
probably hit and miss. Speed-wise,
the text editor is merely average,
and disappointingly you can't even
load the Instructions file into the
program.
The graphics editor allows you to
mess around with .IFF picdes, and
adds basic drawing and filling rou-
tines, but a challenge to an art pack-
age it is not. If you want to make
alterations to pics, why use a very
underpowered system and spend all
night trying to get it right?
I'm afraid that this program,
while offering both text and graph-
to functions, otters far too little in
either category to give it precedence
over any professional package, even
at a PD price.
ing a mad computer and a bounty
placed on it. Aha, an objective!
If you like Ultima-style games, this
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Initially it's all confusion, but as you start
to get Into the game, more and more is
revealed. Well worth investigating.
Messy Dos
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If you work with the PC at all then utili-
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Raid
Oftft 1722 - Wrvs ftrt PD
A couple of the games in this month s roundup are from Palace Software's
Shoot-'Em-Up Construction Kit which was released m 1989. Hopefully by
now people should know how to get the best from M Or so I hoped.
One of the better SEUCK releases is the simply titled Raid, a story ol a
helicopter on a vertically scrolling screen of destruction Of a home pro
grammer's homage to SWIV
Yes, once past level on* it does look very much like parti ot SWIV.
Unfortunately, this homage h merely visual, the action is more Ihnk and
stodgy than fast and exciting
If you play Che game like W was SWIV or any vertical scroller you can think
of. disaster is only seconds away The lint level is quite cunning Your ship
moves loo slowly and has lar loo Mile firepower to Wow your way through
the ranks massed against you Picking out the mute and carefully navigating
by blasting specific larqrtt h the way to progress. Then it gets harder.
The trains are nicely done, but you can come a cropper with some ot the
scenery Some of il ii higher than the rest - the trouble Is, you can't always
tell
Not a great PD game, but a reasonable attempt, with some nice sampled
sounds, and certainly tricky enough to maintain interest
enable you to copy files to and from an
MSdos disk.
Messy Dos goes one stage further in
allowing you to use either Amiga disks
or PC disks in the same drive, and to
save or read files on to or from those
PC format disks. So you can work on
K 10 Amiga uamttn an a doddle with Meay Doi
stuff at home, save as Ascii on to a PC
disk, and take it into work the next day.
Simply auto-booting with the Messy
Dos disk sets up the system for use, and
there are instructions on how to incor-
porate it into your own versions of
Workbench. When you come to read or
write to a PC disk all you have to do is
name the drive as MSO: or MSI: for
example.
The clever part is when you save a
file on to an Amiga disk, stick a PC disk
into the same drive, and save as Ascii
on to that If you swap between the PC
and Amiga with any frequency this is a
very useful utility.
Mental Image Games 1
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Three games for the price of one: a bar-
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page, some average music and Ihe
choice ol games. Gridrunner is based
on that ancient classic Centipede, but
with mobile guns down the side and
along the bottom of the screen, shoot-
ing at you.
From the top, one or more cen-
tipede-type insects race, though the
graphics are so bad they could be any-
thing. Shoot a part of the centipede
and it turns into a green blob. Unless
you continue to destroy the green blob
it will eventually crack open and fire at
you.
That's it really. It's dull and boring,
the graphics are dire, and the gameplay
is repetitive.
So much for Gridrunner, the other
two at least look smart. In fact, they
look like games written by demo pro-
grammers. All flash and no gameplay.
Rebound is the only game on the
disk bordering on playable. It's
Breakout, turned on its side. Power-ups
and special effects abound, but the
annoying thing is the speed of your
bat. It's just too slow to make skill the
winning factor.
Never mind, at least it's almost
there. The Invaders doesn't even come
close. A sideways scrolling Defender-
style game with two very flashy space-
ships, an energy top up, homing
missiles and mines, and bonus point
icons are all the component!. When
you see the first lumbering spaceship
bearing down on your homebase you
think "hey this kid can program-
Clever and skilful shooting will bring
the alien down in a shower of explod-
ing chunks and pyrotechnics.
Very nice indeed lor PD. The trouble
is that that's all there is to the game.
You get lots ol these spaceships on
every level, which merely consist of
more spaceships.
After you've cleared four levels
stuffed full of just one style of alien ship
you reach for the off switch in disap-
pointment
This is generally a good looking col-
lection, but none of them qualify as
good games, and only Rebound scrapes
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When Palace released the onginal C-64 version of SEUCK, It was a cracking gt
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woman - in the street might create something which would embarrass those
software houses charging £25 a chuck for their games.
And so the Amiga and ST SEUCKs were a disappointment, and having
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bad about unimaginative games created with SEUCK.
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a slug, the enemy's bullets move too quickly, there is damn little intelligent game
design. And the sprite detection, if you'll pardon the pun, SEUCKs.
I've had more fun stapling my thumb than playing this taL A nice idea with
Ihe World War I approach, it just goes dreadfully wrong.
The Imadrn boaiti floinv graph-a. but I repeiitne
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In your face...
I'm going to lake you on a mystical
journey, back through time to a place
in history that will illuminate your soul
and light your life with happiness (hang
on a minute, this belongs on a Enigma LPlf}-
I'm actually going to take you back a couple of
months to the )une issue of Amiga Computing (I bet
you're all thinking, tut, urrr, is that all?). Anyway, that
issue with the piggy bank on. The front had a yellow
box on page 33, and in it was the Tune o( the Month
section, plus a ramble on how you should create MED
songs: "It's all too easy, when using a tool like MED, to
fall into bad habits and produce music that is repeti-
tious and bland.... there can be little excuse for lazy
composing."
This is excellent advice and all of which is com-
pletely thrashed three times over (and again for luck)
by September's Tune of the Month, (or Crud of the
Month), "pH-1". Er. I can only ask... what happened?
What tactcrthinfluenced your infinite and divine
Amigan wisdom into choosing such blatant magnetic
mush? I have been cogitating my brain cells on this for
some time - using the Amiga powerpack to make
some toast in the bored moments - and I've devised
five possible solutions:
1 . It was the only tune sent in.
2. The person who chose it had (a) a hangover (b)
fallen asleep (c) a big distortion in his/her ear-lobes
(d) had been held to ransom by a CU Amiga virus.
3. You were simultaneously listening to the complete
works of Stock, Aitken and Waterman.
4. You accidentally played it backwards therefore mak-
ing it sound much better.
5. You only did that because you'd had so many origi-
nal and totally c"p entries at the same time.
I know you are looking for original pieces of music, but
this one was definitely - and without buttering my
crumpet - a flop on a floppy. Still, that's not the end
of the world, and I've loved every other Tune of the
Month so far (the composer of ED209 & Friends
deserves a credltl). Anyway, I have to go now as I'm
flopping all over the room (zits, you knowl),
Eddie Talbot, Rugby
There Is Just no pleasing some people. Is there? At
Amiga Computing we try to pick the best and most
original tunes from the submissions pile. Believe
you me, there Is much, much worse that doesn't
make It to the disk!
We also aim to differ the tune each month. As an
example, for September's tune we provided you
a
with pH-1, an 608 State bleepy kind of tune which
although not particularly melodic was most defi-
nitely original.
We are a reasonable team here at Amiga
Computing and the message is simple - If you can do
any better then stop writing and start tapping
those keys! If it's any good. It just might make Its
way onto the best coverdlsk in the business.
3D Master
It's brill. It's fab. It's fandabadosy. What am I talbng
about? 3D Master of course. I have been using an
Amiga for years now, and as such I was beginning to
get a wee bit bored (well I do use it every day) so I've
been looking at the world of ray tracing. I used the
Real 3D demo disk on the Amiga Computing mag *nd
I thought it was a bit too much (including the pnee).
so when I saw the Senlac Software PD ad showing 3D
master at £35 I thought "could this be what I'm look-
ing for?".
A quick phone call to Senlac convinced me to buy it
without trying the demo version Order placed at
Credit where it's due?
I would like to add my thoughts to the current Pomo
Domain discussion. Although some find pornography
unpleasant, the same can be said of smoking. Whilst
not a hedonist, I find it unacceptable for adults to
condemn other adults' self-indulgence if conducted
in private with other consenting adults.
Although children obtaining pornography is dan-
gerous as it may distort their views regarding love
and sex, I think that dirty PD is the least of the moral
pitfalls lacing the young. I don't base my opinion on
the simplistic "violence is worse than sex so don't
worry about pornography" argument, but you see
my point.
To protect the young I suggest that PD libraries
only supply "Adult" PD to credit card sales - children
don't have them and if they do use their parents'
cards, it can be detected. However, m a tree society
adults must have the right to choose I am not saying
pornographic PD is good - or bad - but you pay your
money and make your choice. Anyway, thanks for the
forum on this topic and for producing the best Amiga
specific magazine bar none.
Roland Casewell. Birmingham
It's an interesting idea, only letting "over 18"
material be sold to credit card customers. The
question Is, are you not restricting peoples' right
to choose if they don't happen to have a credit
card?
I must admit. It does sound like a quick and
Ideal way to stop kids getting their hands on the
pervy side of PD.
2.30pm and I received it at 7.00 the next morning.
Now I have no experience with ray tracing and can't
draw for toffee but within an hour I was drawing (dull,
jhmy, mirrored) balls, boxes, triangles, changing the
angle of view, putting lights in the sky and then ray
tracing, rt's so bloody easy. One feature I do like is that
rou can edit anything at any time.
It is the best editor I've used in any package.
Rendering ts very fast, taking only minutes to do a pic-
ture, so do not think it's PD, because it's not. The
author Martin Staley has done a very good deed
indeed by giving us this little gem at such a low price -
ifs worth much, much more.
So do the right thing and support him, as he will
update the package and I believe when he does you
will be seeing 3D Master as the best ray tracing pack-
age at any price.
Phone up the awfully nice people at Senlac, on
0424 445498, and order 3D Master now...you won't
be sorry.
Michael Allen Thornton, Worcestershire
There you gol If you are Into shiny mirrored balls,
take Michael's advice - get on the phone and ring
Senlac now. Mind you, with a middle name like
Alien would you actually trust this man?
Workstation winner
I am writing to say how good "Workstation" Is. I
thought, could this be as good as everybody claims in
your tetter pages? Well I tested It and I think it is better
than I could ever imagine. I mean, I thought those
flashy icons which changed from one picture to
another totally different frame were too advanced for
the likes of me, but they are just so simple to do with
Iconmaster.
The SID program is brilliant, although I can use
Shell and CU it is all much easier using SID. Work
which lakes two hours in CU or Shell will only lake a
quarter of an hour.
Screen X is very useful, and so is that small utility
called Zoom, which will get rid of your mouse pointer
to save memory, and is easily retrieved by nudging the
1
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mouse. Why sell this software so cheaply? This could
be a £30 effort, like Workbench, or maybe even more.
I would like to say "thank you" for selling it to me,
and "thank you" for that page in your magazine each
month. I would also like to say "goodbye" to
Workbench 1 .3 and hello Workstation.
Finally, how do you format text as bold, italic or
underlined using the QED text editor? If it isn't possi-
ble, could you suggest a goodish PD wordprotessor,
and where to get it from?
lustin Brett, Bradford.
Thanks for your kind words about Workstation, It's
good to hear that It is proving useful.
In reply to your QED question, I consulted Paul
Austin, our Workstation expert, and he says the
QED text editor can't format text as bold face or
italics because it is essentially a text editor and not
a dedicated wordprocessor.
The PD wordprocessor that I suggest you get is
Text Plus which can be obtained from Softville PD
or any other large, well stocked PD library.
We don't charge £30 for the Workstation
because we aren't out to make a massive profit
from It. We just wanted to compile the best PD util-
ities around onto a useable disk - with decent docu-
mentation. By all accounts It has been a great
success.
The Garnet's up
It is my opinion that all your games tests should indi-
cate the following
1 . Is the game hard-disk compatible?
2. Is the game fully OS 2.0 compatible?
3. Does the game take advantage of power accelera-
tors eg.the 68030 processor?
Unfortunately most games released for the Amiga
do not fulfil these requirements. I think that it's your
responsibility to inform about any advantage or disad-
vantage of any piece of software. Also in my opinion
the game rating percentages in Amiga Computing are
way too high. You cannot give every game 90% rat-
ings...yes I know you depend on software companies'
advertising, but please try to rate games a bit more
seriously.
Stein Erik Ciske, Norway
Dear oh dear, we can't seem to get much right can
we? We think every game Is utterly brilliant and
assume that not everyone has items up to the value
Ezra online
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bulletin boards and conferencing systems. If you
have anything to say, get it off your chest online!
Amiga Computing now also has its own
Fidonet echo whkh is being carried by B8S sys-
tems up and down the country. Any Fido sysops
interested in hooking up should contact 01 for
Amiga to receive this echo.
Additionally our mailman with the most, Ezra
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Amiga Computing
of a small family car stuffed inside their Amiga.
Seriously though - If you can be serious about
games - we are now into issue two of Amiga Comer,
the mini-magazine which tells you what games are
really like. You will notice that we aren't over-gen-
erous with the scores (ask Hawk software what they
think)
A great many readers assume that we will give a
game a really high score in order to get Its advertis-
ing. That is not how It works. Look at some back
issues of Amiga Computing, find the highest scoring
games and then search out the adverts. You won't
find any.
Comer indicates how much memory a game uses.
If any games support hard disks or accelerators we
will tell you, providing the software houses tell us.
Stick it!
How many of you discard your broken joysticks? Well
here is a tip for two fire-buttoned "stick" types, tf you
find one side becomes broken, dismantle and swap the
microswitch from one fire button for the broken one.
Result is one working joystick, cost - nil.
This tip came about when I broke my (oystick over
Christmas. Thanks for a great magazine.
James Abram, Wolverhampton
I can spot a slight, teeny, almost Insignificant snag.
If you swap switches you will be left with a mirror
Two's company...
I am writing in reply to Colin Brown's request for help.
It was a surprise to see that someone else had bought a
CDTV from Dixons in Perth. I fully sympathise with the
lack of software - I had two weeks with a welcome disk
that told me of all the amazing wonderful titles that
were going to be available... eventually.
There are rumours going around that you can
attach a standard Amiga keyboard to the CDTV. I
phoned Pizaz! in Dunfermline to ask them about the
article in the August 3 edition of New Computer
Express and they said that it wasn't as straightforward
as plugging in the keyboard, but they were working
on the problem. No doubt Pizazt will come up with a
solution by the time this letter is published, while
Commodore will still be pretending that the CDTV is
not a computer.
Now that you know you have at least two readers
with CDTV's maybe you could bear us in mind when
you're making up your coverdisks. I've not had any
problems with them yet but could you please avoid
asking "Y/N" questions if you can. A few reviews of
the software titles would be nice too.
Frank Senyszak, Perth
Two readers don't make a magazine, but your
heartfelt pleas do not go unnoticed. We now have
a regular Multimedia column which by happy
chance, has already explained how to connect an
Amiga keyboard to the CDTV.
As for CDTV-friendly coverdisks - we always do
our best to make sure that our disks work with as
many machine configurations as possible and we
will strive to ensure that CDTV users aren't left out
In the cold.
Image of the knackered joystick you had before you
started.
Not too bad If you always tend to use one partic-
ular fire button I suppose. If your stick drops dead
is it really such a big deal to fork out around a fiver
for a brand spanking new one?
Snapped poker
I am writing to you because perhaps you can save my
life. Whilst tidying my husband's desk I dropped one
of his disks but before I realised it I trod on it.
It snapped. I haven't told him yet because I am
hoping you can replace it It came from your Amiga
Computing magazine dated March 1991 Issue 34. I
hope you can replace this as he enjoys playing
Klondike.
Mrs A-Tuccio, Surrey.
We wouldn't do this for anyone Mrs Tuccio but,
because your husband loves playing Klondike and
we wouldn't want you to get in trouble we'll send
you a copy in the post
If your home should ever be ransacked by a herd
of athletic elephants stampeding over your entire
collection of Amiga Computing disks, all you have to
do is order a back Issue from Europress Direct. The
order form can be found near the back of the mag-
azine.
Shareware accounts
Following on from your Business Round-Up article in
the September issue, I would like to bring it to your
attention - and hopefully get a bit of free advertising!
- that there is in the Shareware area of the PD market
a program called BMS Professional that I have coded
to:
(a) assist me in running a PD library, and
(b) hopefully help others to do a similar thing.
It consists of several modules, all fully integrated,
and capable of handling up to 100 accounts, SO stock
items, 3 VAT rates and so on. Anyone interested
should drop a line to JirmSOFT PD at the address
given.
Can I congratulate you on producing the only
Amiga specific magazine worth buying - but can we
please have the advertisers index back?
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Forget all that scribbling rough
outlines on scraps of paper, and
sketching in ideas as they pop
out in chaotic fashion. With an ideas
processor so the theory goes, you can
neatly organise anything from a rough
schedule to an entire book, and by con-
trolling the creative process arrive at
the finished product in a structured
way.
New Honzons' Flow, now in its third
version, is a fairly stralghtf orward piece
of software. In operation, it works just
like a wordprocessor, except instead of
lines you have potential headings, lead-
ing in to sub-headings, and so on.
To start a project, a main heading is
required. For, say, ideas on a manage-
ment seminar, this could be "Day
Flov
130
One". To add sub-headings, you sim-
ply press Tab to indent the next head-
ing. Carry on in this way, and you can
define headings to a depth of twenty
levels.
Day One's first sub-heading could
be "Morning Session", and could
include a list of its own sub-headings
such as "Discussion Topics",
"Methods", and so on. By double-click-
ing on any heading or sub-heading, it
is expanded to show the next level of
headings, and by double-clicking
again, It is collapsed.
House of can
It follows that when a scflpln becomes
cluttered by all of ttafTsub-headings,
it is an easy task ^mck on the highest
level of headj^^the main heading,
Day One - ^^rcollapse the whole pro-
ject back dH to one line of text.
You neBR't stop at one main head-
ing, of course. There's always Day Two
and Day Three, not to mention,
"Sobering up on the train home
the loving partner realises your
llal management seminar wayjafning
more than an extuseJpff^ a giant
booze-up_".
The beauty" of a program like Flow is
the extent to which a simple initial lay-
out can be extrapolated through vari-
ous sub-levels until a full outline is
generated.
The ease with which this is achieved
by Flow is rather deceptive, however, as
you could be forgiven for thinking
you're using little more than a word-
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Can you order
your thoughts
with an ideas
processor?
Stevie Kennedy
takes a look
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»at's becaus^Ac* is just that -
designed as^tnJtture inuUhfeknlP
ideas will mow
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the pjogr/m departs f
ancjTasiin electronic
iple yp i nighlyWqamsed slnjc-
found using the program extremely
;asy, and was fairly surprised when I
ended up with a tightly constructed set
of Ideas for future articles. Even better,
when I wanted to go back through the
outline in search of a single idea, Flow's
wordprocessor facilities came into their
own.
The Search function is fast and will
find any word, no matter how deeply
nested in sub-levels, a tot quicker than I
would have been able tq, rummage
through my dc
The SO.OQJe^crfcT ipell checker - with'
Spellings, unfortunately - Is
frne as that supplied with
fckWrite, and Is slower than I would
ryAave liked, but as ijrvutt onW be in
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the sort of exercise which normally
results in your notebook becoming
completely covered in arrows, circles,
exclamation marks, and comments like
"maybe swap Warn slots". With Flow,
the change is accomplished the minute
you think of it.
The program also has the invaluable
ability to automatically number head-
ings and re-number them if dragged to
another location. This means you can
generate lists and re-order them to
your heart's content safe in the knowl-
edge thai the list is always in the cor-
rect order.
For lovers of officialdom, Flow's
numbering options also include the
chapter-section-paragraph standard to
be found in all long and confusing doc-
uments. If you really want, you can
generate outlines to baffle even the
most hardened insurance salesman!
I was a little disappointed to find
that Flow's Search function can't han-
dle a search for a numbered paragraph.
You cannot, for example, tell it to look
for paragraph I At .(c), as the numbers
are scattered around tagged on to the
beginning of their respective headings.
As they don't appear together in the
document, the search function doesn't
pick them up.
You can jump to the page of your
choice, of course, but as Flow is organ-
ised far more on the basis of headings
and sub-headings, the lack of a decent
"go to section" option is a major omis-
sion,
More macros
Yes, you guessed it - Flow is ARexx
compatible. You can define any num-
ber of macros, ten of which are avail-
able from a pull-down menu, and send
or receive commands via an ARexx
port. As just about evervone and his
dog
Tnd as it can, with practice, be a
powerful tool, its inclusion is a wekome
sight.
\\Xm ideas
louhd particularly useful the pro-
gram's capacity to grab a heading at
the highest level and drag it up or
down the list of headings, taking all its
sub-headings with it. In this way,
whole schedules can be rearranged
with a mouse drag in a few seconds, or
your outline can be laid out in a more
logical manner.
By opening up to four outlines at
once, it is also possible to cut and paste
entire sections between them. If, for
example, you have a separate project
(or the second day of your manage-
ment seminar, but wish to re-schedule
the 10am slot so that the two days
swap over, you can cut and paste from
Day One to Day Two, and vice versa.
This sort of post-idea re-working is
Conclusion
Flow Is a useful package which, after a
short time, can surprise you by how
much it helps your thought generation
and organisation. It won't have the
ideas for you, but it is an ideal tool to
apply to them once they've struggled
from your over-burdened brain.
For the money, it could offer a bit
more, and is a fairiy expensive alterna-
tive to the good old spiral bound note-
book, but if your business involves a lot
of work based around a developing
idea, Flow would make a perfect com-
plement to your planning process.
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Although C itself is an easy lan-
guage to learn, newcomers
learning it on the Amiga fre-
quently run into problems-
Why? It's usually because they attempt
to tackle both learning about the C lan-
guage and learning about the Amiga at
the same time! Taken together these two
things produce a tot of headaches and the
easiest way to avoid this situation is to
become comfortable with C before you
start delving into the Amiga-specific world
of Intuition windows, gadgets and menus.
The best way to do this is to start by
writing simple CU/Shell based programs
which just use C's standard inputVoutpul
functions rather than begin by trying to
open Intuition screens and windows.
Within a few weeks you'll find that you
come to terms with the general idea of
writing the code, compiling and linking
etc., and you can then concentrate on
getting a decent understanding of C's
pointer and structure operations.
These latter topics are vital and once a
little experience in these areas has been
placed under your belt you are likely to
find that examples in the Amiga manuals,
including the official Addison Wesley RKM
reference manuals, will make quite a bit
more sense.
One thing that should be mentioned
to the aspiring C programmer is the busi-
ness of ANSI C because, if you're new to
C, you won't know about the big change
that has occurred recently. Since C's birth
there's been a defacto standard based on
a book written by Brian Kernighan and
Dennis Richie called The C Programming
Language (affectionately known as K&R).
Somewhat surprisingly there has not been
an official standard.
The growing popularity of C, the cre-
ation of compilers by software houses
who were nol involved with the original
design of the language, together with a
number of other related issues led to the
formation of an ANSI {American National
Standards Institute) C committee.
Their objective? To look at the lan-
guage, look at possible improvements
which could be made, and to create an
official standard.
The standard formally defines things
that were only hinted at in the original
definition of the language and it provides
a number of alterations which make it
easier for a compiler to check the validity
of C source code.
For the first time it also specifies a set
of standard function libraries which all
How are standards
maintained in
C programming?
Read on ANSI...
Paul Overaa
explains all
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new compilers will support. All of the
major C compilers are already almost fully
ANSI C compatible but the same is not
true about the growing number of public
domain offerings that are nowadays avail-
able.
The biggest difference is likely to be
the way that functions are written and
declared and, if you are learning C from a
PD version of the language, you may in
fact need to use function declarations
based on the old style K&R CI
Many existing introductory C books,
incidentally, are are based on a pre-ANSI,
ie K&R style, version of the C language. In
your early C days only the function-decla-
ralion/f unction- prototype orientated
changes are likely to concern you - but it
is as well to know that a number of other
differences do exist.
A new dimension
The C world has quite a tot to offer the
Amiga programmer, including two excel-
lent commercial compilers.,,
Lattke/SAS C: This is the most expensive
Amiga C compiler environment but you
do get an awful lot for your money
including the compiler, editor, linker, a
the
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a bit of advice...
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Throw in an assembler, all the Arrnga
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tion libraries and superb documentation
and it doesn't take long to appreciate why
this is the package the protanonah tend
to go tor.
Manx's Aztec C: This a the other main
commercial offering available lor the
Amiga. It also has many good pom is and,
like the lattxe/SAS enwonment, comes
with its own set of proo/imrrtrig utilities
(editor, librarian, debugger and so on).
You get the Amiga header fies, the very
comprehensive Altec function Horary and
some good uVxanentiOon
On the puMc dorrum/shareware/any-
thmg-ware front there a now quite a col-
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not get the official Commodore header
files and tho starts to be a problem once
you get rto Amiga programming proper.
The header files are. however, available
from Commodore for around f 30.
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Z C: This would seem to be a modified
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Margaret Stanger however did look at in
the September issue!
NorthC: Produced by Steve Hawtin, the
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The only real drawback is that it doesn't
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THE GAME. At last, a game that takes the world of soccer
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straight back in where I
lefl off last month. This
time we'll round off our look at SID by
revealing the mysteries locked within
the remaining command panel.
Rename, Delete
and Disk
Rename, as you're probably aware, will
do exactly that to any file which has
been highlighted. It's possible to high-
light multiple files and jump from one
to the next, simply hitting Return to
add the appropriate name as you pro-
ceed through the list
Delete is another fairly self-explana-
tory command, which will have the
desired effect on any highlighted direc-
tory or file providing, of course, that
the disk and files in question are unpro-
tected.
The third member of our initial trio is
Disk which can be a very handy addi-
tion to SIDney's repertoire, giving an
instant rundown on the status of any
device on your system, whether that be
a floppy volume, a hard drive or a parti-
tion.
Protect, Set
and Info
The second trio kicks off with two files
that at first glance appear to be identi-
cal but which have one very distinct dif-
ference.
The first of the two, namely Protect,
is designed to work on Individual files,
assigning a unique combination of flags
or bits for each. With the aid of this lit-
tle addition SID can help you to decide
whether a file should be hidden, pro-
tected, undeletable, or in fact, any
combination of the eight available bits.
Once a combination Is complete and
the protection set the next or previous
file in the selected list can be accessed
and adjusted accordingly. When the
final file is set and protected, all the
flags are assigned and the selected files
released.
To check the status of any file simply
click on bits after hitting the right
mouse button at the bottom of the
screen. This will display the bits status
ol all listed files instantly.
The Set option is almost identical,
but once a bit combination is set it's
applied to all the highlighted files. This
may seem a little brutal but it can be
invaluable if you want to universally
change a bit, for example, hiding some
Incriminating art work or ensuring that
If you're a newcomer to this column
you might be a little puzzled as to
what this mystical Workstation disk
is all about. If that's the case it's
worth checking out Page 168 for
details about what you're missing
and how you can get in on the act
Paul Austin
explains
how to get
the best
from SID's
hidden
talents in this
final chapter
Buckle up for the final circuit
at the controls of
good old SID
all files can be deleted if necessary. Info
works in a similar way to Disk but
applies to files and directories rather
than to disks.
Simply highlight the file in question
and hit the Info icon to reveal all the
necessary information from the format
size, status and so on.
All, None
and Pattern
All and None are, in effect a reflection
of each other and are simply used to
highlight or de-select entire directory
lists ready for copying, deletion, view-
ing, hearing or, in fact anything you
fancy.
The third of the trilogy is related to
its predecessors but is a great deal more
subtle as it can be defined to select files
by their suffix alone. For example, all
files with the suffix .pic could be
selected from a list of hundreds merely
by adding the word pic after the t? -
or wild card - in the Partem requester.
Hit Return and all the files with the
suffix .pic will be selected regardless of
the name in front of the suffix. Once
selected, all the options are available.
Partem matching is very useful for all
manner of disk management so keep It
in mind when you're working with
large numbers of hies; it can save hours
of arduous ckking.
Bytes, memory
and time
Bytes is another method of measuring
the size of a tie and the number of files
and sub-directories within any direc-
tory. The command can also be applied
to individual Wes
After any entry o selected a rundown
of the bytes, blocks, number of files and
directories appears below the com-
mand panel for your perusal.
Memory gives a detailed measure-
ment of available Chip and Fast ram
plus a running total of the two. This is
another very handy option for single
drive users who want to squeeze a few
more files into ram before dumping
them back to a fresh floppy.
Time. Yes, you've guessed it, this
one tells the time and before you reach
for a biro to tell me... "(hof would be all
well and good H you could set the bloody
time with the Workstation", in fact you
can, but it must be done through the
CLI - or dare I say it use Workbench.
This seemingly strange state of affairs is
due to the cut down preferences used
on the Workstation which has all the
options of the original - apart from
clock adjustment, of course - and still
manages to do it using only 18K as
opposed to the 56K of the original pref-
erences.
The final three buttons are mostly
ignored due to the inclusion of Lharca
back on the main Workstation screen.
Nevertheless if you want to go straight
to Lharca rather than return to the
main screen simply highlight a file and
click on ARC. Now hit Return and
Lharca will auto-load.
Once loaded all the archiving
options are ready and waiting so there's
no need for the sometimes complex
syntax usually associated with archiv-
ing.
For those of you who need alterna-
tive archiving routines, next month's
issue will be a must because we'll look
at swapping some of SID's commands
to suit you and your system.
Until next month that's about it.
Next time we'll also look at customising
SID's config file along with how to tin-
ker with the internal workings of a few
of his contemporaries.
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About a year ago I acquired a GVP 40Mb hard drive
for my A500, and since then I have had quite a few
problems with read/write errors. Initially, the problem
was fixed by the local Commodore importer who
could not explain to me exactly how he did it - the
language is a bit of a problem here
However, the problem recurred and I am now
pretty sure that it Is due to inadvertent use - by my
inquisitive three-year-old twins! - of the boot off/on
switch on the front of the drive. I have used FixDisk
and DiskDoctor several times to repair the disk struc-
ture, but on re-formatting the drive (always in FFS) the
errors gradually reappear until the drive no longer
auto-boots. I fear the root block is affected, and I won-
der whether this is addressed by the FORMAT com-
mand.
In view of my problems I wish to seek your advice
on the following:
• What utility software is available to fully prepare a
hard drive, partition it, write the boot block, and so
on?
• Is FixDisk capable of repairing the problem, and if
so, how should that be done?
• FixDisk tells me the device handler is
SCSIDEV.DEVICE. Where does it find that? Is it hard
wired on rom as part of the drive?
Please help! The drive was purchased from Power
Computing in the UK, but il'd mean enormous phone
bills to contact them.
Ron Pieterson, Bangkok, Thailand
The game switch Is Innocent) Before you tape It
down or otherwise restrict what Is actually a handy
feature of the Impact Series II drives, consider the
real problem. If you're still getting read/write
errors after repeatedly re-formatting your hard
drive (ouchl), the problem most likely lies with the
drive mechanism.
If the drive has received a knock In transit from
the UK, or In a Bangkok warehouse, the drive heads
will probably be damaged. The only practical solu-
tion would be to replace the hard drive Itself with a
slimline Quantum ProDrive mechanism. This will fit
snugly In the GVP's casing and shouldn't cost too
much in your part of the world.
As for the software you mention, FixDisk Is about
the best shareware hard and floppy disk repairer,
and the GVP FaaastPrep software you should have
received with your drive Is perfectly adequate to
prep, partition, and format your hard drive.
Take the drive to your local dealer and have him
fit a new Quantum mechanism in the shop. Make
sure he does it on the spot because It's not a diffi-
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first time you went to him.
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Could you please tell me the steps to load a con-
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Judging by the number of letters we get along a
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MSdos transfer program such as MessyDos, or go
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Once you've set this up on your Amiga, If s a simple
matter of formatting a PC disk and copying the file
on to It.
Transfer programs usually allow you to specify
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with a virus and can't get rid of it.
I recently purchased an A500 with A501 memory
upgrade, and bought separately a Zydec external
drive. However, nearly all my disks have read/wnte
errors or Not A Valid Dos Disk in Unit 0 or 1 .
My friend suggested I try a virus killer, so I went to
my local software store who supplied what they con-
sidered the best killer for £10. I loaded it up and
bingo, a requester with the message "Unknown (virus)
task in memory" popped up.
Having followed the onscreen instructions I termi-
nated it, or so I thought. The virus killer then crashed
My fault, I thought, and went through the same
procedure but was rewarded with another crash I
tried six times to load the killer, and each time after
terminating a virus it crashed. The virus killer a not at
fault as I have replaced it with a new one and used my
friend's version with the same results.
I need help as I am stuck with £400 worth of useless
junk until the problem is solved.
S Jones, Hereford
You say the virus killer Is not at fault, but If you
paid £10 for a commercial killer, it almost certainly
Is. All the best Amiga virus killers are available for a
small fee as shareware or PD programs, and the
only commercial killers I can think of are hopelessly
out of date.
Check out this month's CoverDisk! You will find a
copy of John Veldthuis's excellent freeware Virus
Checker.
It Is the latest version, which recognises many
new file viruses, including the Saddam virus, and
comes with a program called FixSaddam
Use this to check all your disks and kill off the
viruses you find, then run it at regular intervals to
ensure your collection Isn't infected again. As a sen-
sible Amiga owner, you should also keep an eye on
the PD shareware scene for the latest develop-
ments on the virus front.
I use the Pen Pal wordprocessor, and whenever I try
printing anything using the Amiga Fonts/Amiga
Graphics option, after pnnting what I have asked, the
pnnter, upon reaching the start of the next sheet of
paper, starts printing a load of continuous black lines
and the program just freezes then gives me a guru.
This can't be due to lack of memory, because I have
an AS90 with extra 2Mb, and ProWnte 5.1.1 gives me
no problems I have checked the obvious, such as set-
ting up the correct printer driver, but to no avail.
Please can you help, as I have £80 of software just
sitting on the shelf My printer is a Seikosha SPlSOai
and trie printer driver I use is the MPSJ250. One
other question - assuming you can solve the printing
problem, how do I import Photon paint pictures into
Pen Pal without them looking like they've gone
through a shredder?
R C Caylor, Doddinghurst
Your problem almost certainly lies with the printer
driver The CMPSJ250 driver Is specifically designed
to work with the Commodore printer and will be
only Incompletely compatible with other printers.
The Seikosha is an Epson-compatible printer, so
you should use the standard EpsonX driver supplied
with Workbench and on the Pen Pal extras disk. If
you still have problems, check your printer's DIP
switches to ensure they're set up correctly for
graphics printing. If s highly unlikely that the fault
lies here, but it's always worth checking them.
The reason your Photon Paint pictures are look-
ing a bit bedraggled is because Pen Pal is designed
to cope only with eight colour images. If, therefore,
you want an accurate representation of your graph-
ics, you'll have to restrict yourself to the smaller
palette No HAM printing for you I'm afraid!
Imported drives
I am considering buying a GVP series II 52Mb hard
dnve tor my AS00, and have seen advertisements in an
American magazine where they sell this hard drive for
approximately S600. At the current rate of exchange,
this works out at £361 .
In the UK, the same product is advertised for
approximately £500. Many other products are also
cheaper in the US. I appreciate the risks involved, espe-
cially if the goods are faulty, but if purchased on a
credit card, are there any savings to be made?
How do you overcome the power supply differ-
ences, and how much would shipping and import
duties cost? Are there any other potential pitfalls?
| R Evans, Pontypool
The GVP power supplies which come with Impact
Series II drives work both In the US and the UK
without the need for an adaptor. The question of
postage and Import duties is another thing entirely.
Check with the retailer and find out how much
more they charge for overseas delivery. You might
find they will charge little or no more, but you may
find yourself landed with a hefty courier bill. As for
import duties, I'm not genned up on such matters
and can't realty say how much ltd cost. However,
we regularly receive packages from the US, some of
which require duties of £60 or more to release
them from the clutches of the Excise man. Your
best bet would be to phone Customs and Excise.
The only other problem I can see arising is If the
drive develops a fault or is damaged in transit. The
process of having It replaced by the retalller would
undoubtedly be much more prolonged than if the
drive was bought In the UK.
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148
Stewart C. Russell takes over the Comms column
and gets straight into a round-up of all the best, and
worst, Comms packages
DTV 151
Jason Holborn takes a look at how PageStream DTP
documents can be incorporated into your own video
work
MACHINE CODE 153
Margaret Stanger increases "the pace as she looks at
some fast code routines to keep up with speedy
machine code games
MUSIC 155
A new force in the world of sampling has arrived.
Jason Holborn takes tbe ltd off SunRize's Aodition 4
to see if AudioMaster is outclassed •
AMOS*..".....*.... .:....* 157
At long last, Peter Hickman shows you how to bolt
all the nits of program together to make a game that
not ortly looks good, but plays well too . -
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discusses the right way to use your Amiga's colour
capabilities in DTP .
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148
To kick off my spell as Amiga Computing's
new comms columnist. I thought I'd give
you a mini-review of all the comms pack-
ages I've used on the Amiga
All of the systems mentioned below work quite
well, so if s down to my personal opinion of each
one. Some people will swear by the ones I don't
recommend - but choice of comms software Is a
very penonal thing.
I would always recommend that you try the free
or shareware packages first, before graduating to
the commercial systems. Shareware packages tend
to be more up to date than commercial ones,
since the former have no distribution delays and
can be updated quickly without the need lor
expensive repackaging.
Access!
Registration: $25 (but see below)
Let's start with a package I wouldn't recommend,
despite its very neat presentation and reasonable
ANSI graphics support. Unfortunately, the author,
Keith Young, seems to have disappeared off the
face of the earth, making registration difficult.
Access! is quite old now, and other programs
offer more. So saying that, ifs not that bad if you
already have it, since it does work most of the
time.
A-Talk III
Published by Oxxl Inc
Distributed in the UK by Hit Marketing Ltd
Tel: 0753 686000
A-Talk tnes to be everything to everyone. It can
emulate a wide variety of terminals, from the
slightly obscure Heath HI 9 through the more
usual VII 00/ ANSI emulations, to the rather spe-
cialised Tektronics 4014 graphics terminal.
What's hot and what's not. Stewart C Russell
should know - he's tried them all
Strangely, only the Tek and Workbench screen
options support PAL screens; the rest are short
200-line NTSC efforts.
As befits a program which will be used with
mainframe and BBS connections, A-Talk offers all
the common file transfer protocols, including
ZModem and Kermit. Facilities lor adding more
protocols are supplied through External Protocol
(XPR) library support.
For such a comprehensive program, it is surpris-
ing to find that there is no way of configuring the
package to your modem, beyond choosing from a
small list of supported hardware. Since most of the
modems on the list have been superseded or were
never approved for use in the UK, you may
encounter problems if you have an obscure setup.
A-Talk offers the most powerful script language
of any Amiga comms program. It integrates ARexx
with Its own commands, allowing data captured
online to be processed offline by other programs.
Several examples are provided, including a simple
BBS and a powerful remote access system.
The program is supplied with a very fine man-
ual, which provides an excellent introduction to
communications terminology and practice, along
with clear descriptions of the workings of the sys-
tem.
Unlike other systems, A-Talk is supplied with
some of the archiving and file maintenance utilities
required for day-to-day BBSing. Unfortunately, the
very common Lharc archiver is not included, possi-
bly because A-Talk was around before it made an
appearance on the Amiga.
A-Talk is a "nearly" program. It is rather steeply
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Although IftComm alters superb ittmmol optionx. tt hoi a tendency to present
rather more options at ante than the mind can handle
priced, with an RRP of around £90, and there is
rather too much to complain about for that sort ol
money. Still, it is a well presented program which
is both reliable and useful.
AZComm
Free
Fish Disk 171
AZComm is very old, and compared to most other
programs, very basic. It has no phonebook editing
facilities - a text editor is used instead - no support
for ANSI graphics, no PAL support and no call time
logging either.
It sounds like it's a turkey. How could anyone
recommend it over something as pretty as
Access!? There are two extremely good reasons.
Firstly, AZComm has a very fast implementation
of ZModem. This protocol is generally regarded as
the best way of transmitting data across a tele-
phone line, because it automatically adjusts itself
to suit varying line noise conditions.
Secondly, AZComm is very small as Amiga
comms programs go. It's around 64Kb long,
allowing it to fit on a fairly full startup disk without
displacing too many useful utilities.
AZComm will certainly be adequate lor starting
out in comms, since it doesn't have too many con-
fusing options. It was the first piece of comms soft-
ware I used on the Amiga, and I still rate it highly.
JR-Comm 1.02a
Registration: USSJ5
Most bulletin boards
)R-Comm is a program shaped by the requests of
hundreds of B8S users worldwide, lack Radigan,
the author, has a very definite vision of how the
program will evolve, and has been known to flatly
refuse to implement ideas which don't fit in with
his philosophy.
The program is designed to be the best for seri-
ous BBSing with fast modems. Although it will
emulate a VT100 terminal, ifs most at home with
its full ANSI terminal emulation, right down to
mimicking the keyboard of an IBM PC.
|R-Comm supports the Amiga-specific SkyPix
terminal standard. This allows windows, menus,
bitmap graphic animations and sampled sounds to
be used in an online system. Ifs not quite multi-
media, but it's fun if you find one of the very lew
boards which support it.
The ZModem adaptive file transfer protocol is
supported better than any Amiga program. These
options are set via a large array of gadgets, which
has a tendency to bewilder the new user.
Personally, it gives me the raving technofear habd-
abs every lime.
At least the documentation isn't too frighten-
ing. The documentation actually amounts to more
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and contains hints and examples for specific
modems. There is no aspect of the program which
isn't covered in minute detail, so you won't gel
lost in |R-Comm if you keep this wonderful manual
with you at all times.
Unregistered versions of )R-Comm have delay
screens built in, plus plaintive messages are posted
after 30 days' use. For such a powerful program,
|R-Comm is very reasonably priced at USS35.
Thaf s around £21 in Real Money, or less than the
price ot one possibly mediocre game.
JR-Comm doesn't support scripts yet, but a ver-
sion with this plus ARexx support is in the works.
As it stands, it's an uncompromising sports model
of a terminal program - some people won't be
able to handle (L
NComm 1.92
Registration: Ciftware
Most bulletin boards
NComm is the sole European effort in this whole
overview. It was originally written to allow the
Amiga to support the IBM-Norwegian character
set, but over time it has matured into what has to
be my favourite terminal program.
The outstanding feature of NComm is its inter-
nal multitasking - you can be browsing through
the scrollback buffer while the terminal is still
receiving and displaying information from the
remote system. You might think that this is of lim-
ited use, but once you've tried it, you really can't
live without it
Registration is easy and novel - just send the
authors a gift The nature of the gift is entirely up
to you, but it should reflect the value of the pro-
gram to you. Hmm, how am I going to post a
gold brick to Norway...?
The usual protocols are supported, plus any
extra you may wish to add via XPR library support-
There are known problems with certain versions of
the XPR ZModem library, and NComm is supplied
with an old, but serviceable, version.
There are also problems with high speed sup-
port for YModem-C, the last minimal protocol lor
use with error-correcting modems. Despite these
problems, I can still get momentary bursts of over
1 900 characters per second with ZModem on an
A500 and a Courier HST, so it's not slow.
NComm does have quite a powerful script lan-
guage, but because it doesn't support ARexx, it
cannot readily control external programs. It is
quite powerful enough to write a small BBS sys-
tem, and one is supplied in script form with the
distribution archive.
The latest version of NComm (vl .92) isn't avail-
able outside the BBS circuit. However, the very ser-
viceable NComm 1 .9 is on fish Disk 356. The later
version adds better file requesters and fuller sup-
port for XPR protocols (including Hermit) plus the
ability to change the program's task priority for
enhanced performance.
I use NComm 1.92 dairy, and I keep hearing
tales of woe about how it doesn't work on other
people's systems. For once, my ageing and some-
times incorrigible AS00 works perfectly with i
piece of "difficult" software. It gets my vote as the
best Amiga comms program around.
VLT
Free
Fish Disks 468 & 455 - both required
V1T is a special purpose comms program, ft couM
be used lor connecting to bulletin boards, but it rs
really designed for mainframe connections.
It emulates a DEC V7100 terminal to a very
high standard, with character graphics and 1 32
column operation. It also pretends to be a
Tektronics 4014 graphics terminal, a standard used
in mainframe CAD applications, nght down to co-
ordinate input using the mouse.
VIT supports XModem and Kermit file tram***
protocols, plus any XPR external protocol Sbrary -
so ZModem can be used if desired. Since the syv
tern is tailored for graphics applications, it can sm
the screen as an IFF bitmap or as PostScnpt struc-
tured graphics. ARexx is fully supported, aBowmg
the program to be customised to the user's prefer-
ence.
In short, if you need to connect to a U'ge
remote computer system, VIT is the program to do
it It has more features applicable to trw sort of
usage at a lower cost than any ol the otfwr sw
terns.
Online! Platinum
Published by Mkro-Systemi Software Inc
Distributed in the UK by MB Marketing ltd
Tel: 0753 686000
This program can be bought separately, or as part
of The Works' Platinum Edition software bundte. If
you really shop around, The Works! can be bought
for under £80. which offers good value for money.
Online! costs around £40 if bought separately,
which is still very reasonable.
Online! isn't sure whether if s a BBS users pack-
age or a technical users system. It offers all the
"«os*> protocols for good BBSing - including
me extremely obscure SADIE protocol, used only
« MSS products - plus it tries its hand at VT100
and Tea 4010 emulation
t often a very powerful scripting language,
wa»i ful ARexx support It isn't quite as powerful
m A-Taff s jcnpong language, but it would cer-
tar*y be able to run a small BBS host, or feed cap-
tured data to external applications.
V I Km to pick holes in Online! Platinum, I
fovnd a **ry tiny irregularity in the elaborate
nraiituri sequence. It missed out a vital colon in
an A&ugn command, causing it to fail. As it
appended * 1> one of your startup files, it would
haw pmntod the system working in a very sub-
8e and nas> manner. Once discovered, the prob-
lem a embarrassingly simple to fix - just add the
move, colon.
Onfenef afco manages to look old, somehow - it
has af the old-style requesters, with none of the
p5*u*>30 WB2 0 look. Despite the aesthetics, it
"oti we*, but as a stand-alone package, NComm
and H-Comm offer more for less money. If you
afco want the other packages in The Works!, it
dten usable features at a very low cost
Conclusion
So there we have it - a brief look at most of the
Amx^a comms programs. I know I've missed out a
tew. but those omitted are the ones I have never
used
So wtuch one is the winner? For general BBS
wort, iTs a straight fight between JR-Comm and
NComm They're pretty much level on features,
and they are both top-line pieces of software.
Since NComm and JR-Comm are shareware,
you can make up your own mind about which is
best I prefer NComm; it happens to work the way
I like working.
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Ifler last month's look at how you can use
DPaint within your video productions, I
thought I'd continue on the theme with a
took at a lew more packages that could make your
video productions look a lot more professional.
Rather than waffle on endlessly about the more
obvious programs - presentation systems and
video titlers, lor example - 1 thought I'd restrict the
coverage, for the meantime, to some o( the more
unusual programs.
Believe it or not, many of the packages that you
may use for such things as DTP and solid mod-
elling work can be used for genuinely useful video
work. You may not think that DTP is something
that translates to video particularly well, but you'd
be surprised. All that is needed is a little bit of
imagination and an understanding of the technol-
ogy available to you.
One package that I use a great deal is Soft
Logic's excellent PageStream 2.1 . Why? Well, now
that PageStream supports Compugraphic fonts,
it's ideal lor producing titles.
OK, several video titler manufacturers are now
starting to use Compugraphic fonts too, but
PageStream offers distinct advantages. For starters,
PageStream's ability to scale fonts simply by drag-
ging them in or out to the required size is a real
boon. If you've ever tried producing video titles
using conventional bitmap fonts, you'll soon start
to appreciate just how useful this feature is
Unlike bitmapped fonts, Compugraphic fonts
are scalable, so you can stretch and compress
them to just about any size without any degrada-
tion in quality, tven at very small point sizes,
Compugraphic fonts still look a lot better than
their bitmapped cousins.
Obviously the resolution that you are working
in will degrade the title a little, but Compugraphic
fonts still manage to look good, even in low res.
Jason Holborn shows how PageStream, the desktop
publishing program, can be used for video work
Another very nke feature of PageStream is its bo*
rotation feature. ProPage now has this too, but
PageStream's box rotation is far more powerful.
It's not |ust restricted to straight box rotation - like
ProPage - instead, you can slant and twist fonts,
which not only helps to add a bit of variety, but
can also make your utles look more professional.
Right, so we've discussed how to manipulate all
those lovely Compugraphic fonts, all that now
remains is to turn them into something that can
be used within a video titling, paint or presenta-
tion system. For this, I use a very powerful little
screen grabbing utility called PicSaver.
If s a PD program, so there's no excuse whatso-
ever for not buying yourself a copy of it today. Pk
Saver is on TBAG disk 56 which is available from
AmigaNuts United on 0703 785680.
PicSaver isn't just a screen grabber though.
What makes it so special ts its ability to grab any
rectangular section of any screen. Simply by hold-
ing down three hot keys, you can drag out a bo*
around a particular section of the screen. When
you release the mouse button, PicSaver saves the
graphic block to disk as an IFF file. If you are using
Amiga Toasters for Macs
Amiga owners can no longer look on smugly at
other professional computer users with the news
that Kansas-based NewTek have developed a
Video Toaster system for the Macintosh.
The Mac Video Toaster comprises of a black
box which connects to the Mac via a smart serial
interface. Contained within is all the usual Video
Toaster hardware, plus an extra bit of circuitry
mat Mac owners may be rather reluctant to admit
to - that is, it contains an Amiga.
Instead of developing a brand new Video
Toaster for the Mac - which is something that
probably wouldn't even be possible without con-
siderably more circuitry - NewTek have decided
instead to develop a stand-alone Video Toaster
that contains much of the Amiga's custom hard-
ware.
The fairly hefty box is basically an Amiga
B2000 without a keyboard, although the software
side of the Video Toaster is controlled almost
entirely by the Macintosh. In reality though, the
Mac is treated as nothing more than a dumb ter-
minal, with all the hard work handled by the
Amiga itself, so we Amiga owners can still retain a
certain amount of smugness.
Also on Ihe Video Toaster front. NewTek have
released version 2 of the Video Toaster Uttk* was
known about this new release at the time o'
going to press, although sources close to the
company revealed that ihe new Video Toaster
offers double the resolution of the ongmal Toaste*
plus much improved software The new software
offers many more video effects, plus a lot more
besides.
There's still no news of the PAl Vrfeo Toaster
which is definitely going ahead NewTek are tak-
ing in terms of about a year, although I wouldn't
be surprised if it took considerably longer
The current Video Toaster is bed very dosefy to
the peculiarities of the NTSC video system, work-
ing around loop holes to produce its effects.
Producing a PAL version would also certainly
require a total rethink, so don't hold your breath
for this one.
Rest assured though. I'll be bnnging you a full
review as soon as a PAl Video Toaster appears.
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no co/i matt tuperb ttdra Mlti
a program Uie PageStream, don't forget to turn off
the page gnd tf you don't, you'll have tots of little
dots which musi be painted out before the
graph* can be used.
Great effects
Once you haw your one on disk as an IFF We, all
that remans ototartitupabitina paint package
ba* DPart The demo image shown elsewhere on
ths page was created using nothing more than
PageStream and a copy of DPaint 3.
Tm sure you'" agree that it looks a lot nicer
ttujn the tend o* effects that are obtainable using
conventional bitmapped fonts. It's also worth not-
ng that fve put a 2 pixel black border around the
g'«pn< As discussed last month, this helps lo
mrwnafae colour bleeding when the image is laid
down on to video tape.
PageStream isn't the only package that can be
used tor video work. Another very fine DTP pro-
gram that I use extensively is Gold Disk's
Professional Draw 2.0.
ProOraw handles all its graphics in structured
form, therefore they can be twisted and stretched
without any toss of image quality. Fonts are partic-
ularly well handled in ProDraw, although I must
admn that the results don't always look as good as
they do within PageStream.
Those of you with unexpanded Amigas may
find the going a bit tough when you start playing
around with large sections of graphic like those
used within the screen shown. H you can afford it,
it really is worth it to buy a ram expansion of at
least 2Mb.
Even better, get your machine converted - in
the case of the A500 - to work with the new ECS
Agnus. This new chip, which is now installed inside
all new Amigas, allows you to use up to a
megabyte of chip ram, which can be very useful
indeed for this kind of work
Anyway, that's enough tor now. I'll leave it to
you lo find even more ways of using packages like
PageStream. ff you do come up with a particulariy
good idea, why not write in and let me know?
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How to scorp
Keeping scores and other info in a fast-moving
game requires some fast code.
Margaret Stanger has the answers
This month's Machine Code is all about
the display on a scoreboard and there is a
fully working program on the CoverDisk
that demonstrates these techniques.
There are several ways to pot (he empty score-
board on the screen. If the scoreboard is fairiy sim-
ple, it could be generated by drawing into the
rastporL This takes up no extra space on the disc
or in the program.
The disadvantage is that drawing lines and
colouring in rectangles can be rather time con-
suming, even for an Amiga.
The scoreboard could be generated by an art
program like DeluxePaint, stored on disk, and read
in whenever the scoreboard is to be cleared. The
design can be more elaborate, perhaps even a
posh scoreboard designed by an artist.
If the program has enough free memory, the
scoreboard picture can be read into a bitmap in
memory, stored there during the program run, and
copied to the screen when needed. Usually I prefer
this method but there is no hard and fast rule.
Status symbols
To add variety, sometimes a gamepJayer's status
can be displayed in picture form. Usually the small
number of lives left b shown piclonally.
Ttme used and damage sustained are often dis-
played as an increasing line. Available weapons,
energy, health and stamina can be a line that
decreases depressingly quickly. These lines can be
updated with a dot in the foreground or back-
gound colour very quickly.
The demonstration program shows decreasing
energy and increasing time. To keep track of the
passage of time, a green rectangle is slowty built
up until It fills the rectangle. This is done by draw-
ing an extra line every few game cycles.
The decrease in energy is done by adding black
lines, and making the energy rectangle smaller.
The writing on the wall
For text and numbers that vary during the game,
the graphics library text routines can be used. I
find this process rather too slow 'or a fast moving
game that needs its scores updating quite often.
Instead I keep a copy of my system or designer
font in picture form in memory.
The demonstration program reads in a DPaintll
320 x 256 4 Bitpiane picture called fontpic This
contains both the blank scoreboard and the font.
I use the BltBitMap command to copy the text
from memory to the screen. The letters are not
copied very often, so I have used a routine that
puts a mask of the letter on the background first,
then the letter in the chosen colour. This could
easily be adapted (or multicoloured letters. The
routine to display the numbers is slightly different.
As the numbers are updated fairly often, I keep a
copy of the number and its backgound. so that A
can be copied to the screen in one operation
To make life easier, I have written a smaH rou-
tine to display a chosen text string, or string of
numbers:
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mat form in a byte, word or long word. Tho form
is terrific for arithmetic, but not so good lot da>
play. An Ascii suing of numbers is perfect kr d>
play, but useless for sums,
Whenever the scoreboard is updated the score
has to be converted to its display form The rov
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sure that the score does not overflow the Key-
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exit. Numbers 1 to 9 conveniently
UWttY COOES from 1 to 9. These are dis-
added to the score. Number zero, with
•5 MMCY COOt of 1 0, has to be intercepted first.
How the program works
The depby is initialised, and the blank scoreboard
and tent are read in from the disk. The text is put
m place, and the initial energy displayed. Each
cyde is counted. When the number of game
cycles reaches the chosen rate then energy is
decreased and time increased.
When a key is pressed down, the keycode is
sioreO If the key is a number between zero and
nrie. it is displayed as a number and added to the
score. Key releases and most letters are ignored.
The program exits when the energy runs out, or
Q ts pressed. The numbers will have been echoed
to the calling CLI window. Press Return, or delete
these numbers to continue.
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A great perform
Does the release of SunRize's Audition 4 mean the
end for AudioMaster? Jason Holborn finds out
For years now, Aegis/Oxxi's AudioMaster
sample editor has ruled the sampling
waves. With its ultra-friendly user inter-
face and powerful editing options, AudioMaster
has remained the sampling fanatic's favourite.
Despite the fact that Aegis have only recentiy
started bundling the program with a sampler, vir-
tually all serious sampler users choose
AudioMaster over the sample editors bundled
with their sampling hardware,
I recently received a review sample of SunRize
Industries' Audition 4. Billed as the program that
"carries on where AudioMaster 3 left off",
SunRize are certainly making brave daims. Does
it live up to them?
Sound choice
SunRize have optimized Audition 4 to work with
their own Perfect Sound 3 sampler, although it
also supports a number of other samplers includ-
ing Perfect Sound 1 and 2, SoundMaster and a
general purpose Generic option. If you own a
sampler that isn't directly supported, then it's
worth trying both the SoundMaster and Generic
settings to see which works best with your kit-
One surprising omission is the lack of support
for high speed samplers like RamScan's excellent
Audio Engineer. These will work perfectly well
with the SoundMaster setting, but they won't be
used to their full capacity
Once you've told Audition 4 which sampler
you are using, you're ready to get down to some
serious sampling.
Play away
Upon loading, you'll notice that the Audition 4
screen is split into two distinct areas. At the top
of the screen is the usual display which plots your
sample in graphical format Below this is a selec-
tion of gadgets which allow you to carry out all
the basic functions including Play Waveform,
which plays the entire sample held in memory;
Play Display, which only plays the area of sample
currently being displayed; and Play Range, which
plays a marked range. There are also gadgets
which allows you to zoom in and out of the sam-
ple and turn looping on and off.
Audition 4's Zoom function is particularly
impressive. Most sample editors - including
AudioMaster 3 - require you to mark out a range
which the software instantly jumps to when you
click Zoom.
However, the zoom function is considerably
more sophisticated than this. Instead of jumping
straight to the marked range. Audition 4 zooms
in on it, increasing the amount of magnification
until the desired range is fully displayed. It's a lit-
tle like using a zoom lens on a camera. All the
rest of the Audition 4 functions must be selected
from the pull-down menus, with extra gadgets
appearing at the bottom of the screen whenever
a function is selected. The first function that you
will want to play with is the sampler section, SO
we'll take a look at that first
Sample city
Audition 4 fully supports both mono and stereo
sampling when used with a compatible sampler
Those like Sound Trap 3 or MasterSound won't
allow for stereo sampling, so you'll need some-
thing like TechnoSound, AMAS or SoundMaster
to grab stereo sound.
The sampler section is split into a number of
gadgets which allow you to alter the sample rate,
monitor the Incoming sound source and finally
grab a sample.
Surprisingly, you can't dynamically control the
size of the sample. Instead, Audition 4 tries to
allocate as much contiguous memory as possible
When you set the sample rate, it then tells you
how long the sample will be in seconds. A 512k
Amiga will grab five seconds worth when sam-
pling at the maximum rate.
Depending on which sampler you are using,
you can grab at up to 55 KHz. However, these
really aren't a great deal of use, as the vast major-
ity of sample-compatible music packages can't
handle samples at this kind of rate.
The Amiga's own DMA sample playback hard-
ware only supports rates of up to 29 KHz, so if s
best to restrict sampling to these rates.
One very nice feature is Audition 4's ability to
record samples direct to floppy disk, allowing you
to produce your own sample demo disks. For
this, Audition 4 uses its own high speed custom
disk format and then tacks a player program on
to the boot block of the disk.
As a result, the only way of playing back the
sample once recorded to disk is to boot from the
floppy that it is stored on. This is perhaps a tattle
loo limited for serious use.
I'm surprised that SunRize didn't build in a
facility to allow direct recording to hard disk, so I
guess we're going to have to wart for SunRize's
Studio 16 software which is bundled with
their new 12 and !6-brt sampling cards.
All the usual editing functions are there, and
are accessed by first selecting an area of sample
using the mouse and then clicking on the appro-
priate option from the pull-down menus. You can
cut areas of sample, copy and then paste areas of
sample, zero marked ranges, insert sections and a
lot more besides
Even more interesting are Audition 4's special
editing functions which include: Mix, which
mixes two samples together; Echo, which adds
echo to a marked range; Fade, which fades out
a marked range; Flange, which adds a sort of
*worWy" effect to a sample; Filter, which filters
out specified frequencies; Smooth, which takes
out higher frequencies; Maximise, which boosts
certain frequencies; and Lift Treble and Bass,
which lift the treble and bass of the sample
respective*/.
Many of these operations is that they can be
previewed before you commit yourself. This way,
you can control the effect of the operations
dynamically, allowing you to get your sample
sounding just nght
Conclusion
Because Audition 4 is such a complex program it
would be almost impossible to cover every aspect
of the program within this single page. Suffice it
to say that virtually everything that can be done
wtthm AudioMaster 3 can also be done within
Audkton 4. This includes sequenced loops, wave-
form tuning and much more besides.
it a without doubt one of the most compre-
hensive sample editors available for the Amiga.
I'm not quite sure whether I'd stop using
AudwMaster 3 altogether in favour of Audition 4,
but I'd most certainly have Audition 4 at hand
whenever I wanted to apply certain effects to a
sample.
There's no escaping the fact that Audition 4 is
a very capable system indeed. For the price, it
represents extremely good value for money. So if
you are after a sample editor, check out Audition
4 first. You won't be disappointed.
Suppliers
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are available from HB Marketing on 0753 686000.
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the real skill is in integrating them with the soft-
ware so that they are invisible to the player, while
at the same bme making him or her think "wow, I
wonder how they did that?",
OK, the first step in any piece of software is to
set up your screen, we've done all of this before -
if you missed it then buy the back issues - so I
won't take you through all of the old details again:
1 Sit up
Scrim Optn 0,520, 2W,1s,L8«r«
Curs Of I
flash Off
Cli 0
(It Sprit* Plltm
Roubli Buffir
lutobick 0
Now we have the task of initialising all of the vari-
ables that we will use. Although Amos - and most
other versions of Basic for that matter - does not
require you to do this, it is a habit you should get
into. After all, you won't be using Amos forever,
will you?
We will need to keep track of the X and Y posi-
tion of our character, so we will use two variables
called X_GOOO and Y.COOD. As well as storing
the position of our character the joystick status will
have to be stored, so we will call that variable
WAY:
X 60OP=150
("6001=100
■ll=0
Of course we will also need to move the bad guy
around, so we will call its X and Y coordinates
X_BAD and Y_BAD:
Finally we may want to introduce individual speeds
for each of the characters in the game, so we will
call these - guess what? - GOOD_SPEED and
BAD_SPEED. Notice that by using meaningful vari-
able names we can tell a glance what a particular
section of code is doing, but be careful of falling
into the trap of ending up with variable names 40
characters long - they can be a real drag to type
in!
6OO0.SPEED*!
b»_Tpeed«i
Ohhhh, I almost forgot This game is very simple
and because of this it is going lo be blindingly fast,
so in order to slow it down we will only update
everything occasionally. It sounds strange I know,
but all will become dear very soon.
The vanable we are going to use to control this
Peter Hickman shows you how to fit
the bits into something playable
is called T - or time! - and the vanable used to
hold the score is called SCORE:
1=1
SCOIt-0
Now we have to stick the player and the bad guy
on lo the screen. For this example program we are
using BOBs, but you could use hardware SPRITES:
Bob U_SOOB,»_600D,1
Beb l,tj»,ij»fi
Now for the main part of the game:
iiput
The first line here tells the program that we only
want to execute everylhing inside the IF structure
when the vanable T has a value of two. At the
moment it only have a value of one:
If T=2
Our next task is to check the joystick to see rf a
movement has been made. We will use the |OY()
function rather than the JUP/JDOWN functions,
because it is more versatile. A fuller explanation as
to why this is will be given in the next issue.
We store the current joystick value - which is a
number between 0 and 1 6 - in the variable WAY.
If WAY has a value greater than zero then we know
thai the joystick is being moved, and we can then
test the direction and move our character
If MT>0
At this point we know that our man has moved so
we can increase the score by one:
Int SCOIE
Now comes the joystick testing bit. In a previous
issue we saw how the |OY0 function returns values
depending on how it is currently positioned |u«
to recap, these are the values for the four basx
directions: UP=1. DOWN=2, IEFT=4, RrGHT=*.
Knowing this we can see if the player wants to
move the character and so can increase/decrease
the X_GOOD/Y_GOOD variables accordingly.
If HUl
Add I »0D,60OR_SPEEI,0 U 31*
End If
If Ml«4
Ida I iOM,-S0OD_SPEED,0 IB 311
End If
If Ml=1
Ida 1 600I,-HOSJ»E£9,Q T« 1l*
End It
If KIT* J
Add !_H0»,W0l_SPEEI,l II Iff
End If
Another trick when writing a game is not to
update anything on the screen unless it has
moved. For this reason we will only redraw our lit-
tle character when the joystick has been moved:
Bob 1,1 (MB,i_fiMI,1
End If
Here is a tricky question, with a very simple
answer. How do you make a nasty home-in on
your good guy? Well, imagine you were playing a
game where you had to run after somebody. The
brain would follow a simple set of rules, like: "If the
person is to the left of me, I must move left.' and,
■rf the person is in from ol me I must move for-
ward "
These are the simple rules we can follow to
make a "homer" Of course most games have a
slightly longer lot of rules to control movement of
bad guys and good guys, but at the end of the
day they are stfl only a list of rules that the pro-
gram mustfoiow
I am sunt you have played many games where
arte' a whie you realise that if you perform a cer-
tain action at a certain point you can make the
program do the same thing almost every time.
This a because it is rust following a set of simple -
or cornpKcated - rules:
If I COOfttl BID
■3d i bibVbii speed
flu
Idd I_IID,6ID_SP£ED
E*4 If
If IWHllll
iaa i_iibViaijpeei
flu
Idd l_HD,BIDJPEED
EM If
At this port we update the position ol the bad
guy and increase the value of the variable T.
Remember that the ADD statement below has
been written so that the number will wrap around
from 1 to 2
Bob 2,1 BID,T BID, 2
idd t,l7l TP 1
As «** has* seen earlier, to slow the game down
we only update characters every second time we
go tfvough the loop. If the value of T is not 2 the
program w* jusl execute the next couple of lines
and go bach to the beginning:
Elii
Idd 1,1,1 To 2
End If
finally, we must set a stop condition on the
REPEAT/UNTIL loop. In this case the program will
slop rf BOB number one collides with any other
BOB If a collision is detected your score is printed
and the game ends!
Until Bos Cot(l)
toil
Print "10U IRE DE1D! ! ! ! TOUR SCOPE IS~;SC0IE
upditr
End
The game is on the coverdisk for those who want
to try it out How long can you run around avoid-
ing the nasty invader type beastie?. Why not
experiment a little bit and see if you can add more
bad guys and perhaps objects to collect. Before
long you could be writing the follow up to
Uamatron!
Finally, do not try to compile the game unless
you slow it down, because it will end up impossi-
bly fast*
Remember that no piece of software is fixed,
and if you do not like something about a game
you write then change it!
Oh well, that's about it for this month. But
don't worry, I'll be back!
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CODE CLINIC
This month's Code Clinic is all about using
■equesters and gadgets in a program to
communicate with the outside world.
When I am writing programs in any language, I
try to build up a library of software routines so
that I do not need to reinvent the wheel for every
new project
The software on the support disk demonstrates
requesters and several different gadgets from my
collection, with a runnable program and fully
documented source code.
Automatic
Intuition provides AutoRequest. This function will
display a two gadget requester with text of your
own choosing.
This command works well, but I prefer to have
more control over the requester design than the
AutoRequest command gives me. The mouse
pointer can disappear if it wanders out of this
automatic requester area.
Gadgetry
I decided to make my own generic requester, and
give it its own window and choice of gadgets. In
the demo program the window and gadgets are
plain but graphics could easily be copied into the
bitmap or drawn into the rastport.
All that the window needed was a pointer to
its first IntuiText structure for its little warning, or
chunk of information, and a code to indicate
where to find its first Gadget. The IntuiText struc-
ture contains all the information lor a piece of
text, including a pointer to the next text
strict InlulTeit tTUtti 1
S,I,JU2, f'piM end ritnede*'
0,7, '' " origin*'
0, /Mont pointer*/
•Or, 'Ipotnter to tut*'
NULL /'neit Intuitu! Jtructur*'.1
The first gadget for a window includes all the
gadget's information including a pointer to the
next in the linked list ol gadgets.
struct Gadget Ifiedgetl ■
{
DULL, 'Mil gadget*'
127,69, /'origin*/
11,16, 'Mdth »d Height*'
DULL, /MUgi*'
IELVEIIFT, '*acllMiton Higi*'
BOOlGMGEI, '*gedget type fligi*/
lArlBIMorderl, /'border pointer*/
DULL, /*iltemm iiigrr*'
HTeitM, 'Mint Intoiteif itrucliire*'
HUH, f'gedget totuil exclude*'
KILL, /*ipedll itto ilructure*'
NULL, ''user definable diteV
NULL /'pointer to uiir data*'
I include the code for setting up the requester
NewWindow structure. The gadgel list is depen-
dent on the code, as is the height of the window.
lequeittcode.iteitl long code; itruct InttttTeit
•It. it;
Margaret Stanger reveals some time saving gadgets
11 (code==1> N(.m«itruct.F1ntSidget=li6idgit1;
11 (code"?) MrtinStruct.firitGadget=lBGedget2;
II (code")) leaVlnltruct.FiritfitdgetilCddgett;
if (code«0 leuVinStnicl.'iruGldget^tGidgetfl;
If (code"*) NeMHlnttract.Firit(idget^lEiidget7;
NertinStroct.Netgbt*12(l;
H ItodKli Nertfnitruc.He1git«10Q;
if (lnitl<)"1) returniTIUlJ;
/'opem tbe ■indon*'
Pr1ntIFnt(rpreq,lteU,0,0);
Handle IICRPIeqO;
CleanUpNUULL);
return(reqanmer);
i
The window has its own message handling loop,
just like the main window. Each of the gadgets
has its own code that is executed when the gad-
get in the requester is selected.
void Mindlei»enH<objeci) mi object;
Int i; If (0bject"(ArTM«ld9et1>
t
flip ■ TIUl;retum;
)
if (ob]ecl=(mi>lBGadgetI)
<
(leg > UUE;rtturn;
1
If {object"(lPII)IBfiid|etl)
I
return;
)
if (obJect:=(*PTI> Ittidgeti)
{
flig * ll(IE;ret«rn;
)
If (rtject"UPH) ICGadgctM
i ■ itrcip(iGidget6HlNft,D(idgete5II)ndo);
1f (il=D)
itrc»H»fi>dgtt61lluf1,»fiidgetoSIUndo);
flag ' TRUE;
return;
)
If : IEGed«t7>
(horigedget(IEfiad«l7>;
ratlin;
i
It lobject"(APTl) lE(idgetl)
(vcrigidgelllEGadgetB);
return;
)
if (ob|ect"(*PTR) ItGidgetA) (retirn;
>
Warnings, strings & props
The first requester, code 1 , has one gadget with
text "OK". When this is pressed, the window will
close. A second type of requester, code 2, has
text and a "yes* or "no" selection, the window
only closes if "no" is chosen.
The third requester, code 3, is more dignified,
with a choice between Cancel and Continue.
These kinds of requesters are used for informa-
tion, warnings, and when confirmation is
required from the user.
The fourth requester uses a string gadget to
input some text. This gadget is linked to the
Cancel and Continue gadgets, so these appear as
well. This is invoked by the gadget named Suing
Gadget on the main window. If Cancel is pressed
when the requester dam. 9m a
the string are put back «mo 9m buffer Tfta i
be a useful gadget for putt**) * *■
small piece of text into a prog***
this are used a lot in tile requesters
The final requester demonstrates a Hvubtij
and a Vertical Ptoporhonal gadget and » ■"■■'I
to the third gadgel fist, and invoked by tfw tHHfV
get called 'propgadgel' in the main
The position of the slider in a Proportional i
can be read and used in the mam program.
itHi*Jf(?;ctJ(tu strict Gadget *gidget;
ffwf Protlifo 'ipl;
«UM1 dWTitr.Up;
Juris* ■ fUIPOt/IW;
ill " direct Proplnfl *)|id|tf->$poctillnfo;
Up • wt-mniPot;
MriitilM ■ llp'dlvlior;
tarimitO;
rtterifD);
The majumum value is divided by 100 to give a
drvtsor When this divisor is used on the HorizPot
value, a number between 0 and 100 is given.
This number a displayed in the main window but
K could be returned from the function and used
elsewhere.
Vertical Proportional gadgets work in a similar
way Gadgets wtth sliders like these feature in
colour requesters.
The demo program
The program opens a window with four gadgets;
Request, String. Proportional and Quit. Click on
Request to display a simple informational
requester, and press its OK gadget to close the
requester window and return to the main win-
dow.
Click on the main window gadget called
Stnng to display a string gadget and two simple
gadgets named Cancel and Continue. Move the
mouse to the String gadget, and click where you
want to start entering text
Enter the lext, edit by moving the mouse and
clicking, delete if necessary. If you click on the
Continue gadget, the new text will replace the
old and be displayed on the main screen. Click
on Cancel, and the old text, if any, will be shown.
The main window gadget called Proportional
will invoke a requester with two proportional
gadgets, one vertical and one horizontal. Move
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released a value between 1 and 100 will be dis-
played on the main screen. Either Cancel or
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Click on the Quit gadget on the main screen
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COMING SOON - Next month I hope to
demonstrate a dynamic menu that will display
any fonts available and their sizes.
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Colourful ta
II might have just been the smoke and the
dim lights, but I prefer to think it was a ques-
tion ol colourspaces when Nicola accused
me in the pub last night of wearing white socks. I
wasn't, of course - even I have my standards, and
they were canary yellow - but there's always
room for disagreement when it comes to colour.
We all know that people see colours differ-
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but as certain colours are universally regarded as
disgusting and others as lovely-lovely, we can
assume that there's some consensus.
Trouble arises when we try to define a colour
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Unfortunately, RGB is not used in conventional
Barnaby Page discovers that colour
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Process Yellow
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and uncoaled paper.
Only simulated
The designer then specifies the required Pantone,
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Nicola found out with those socks, colour is, at
best, a subjective thing.
Barnaby Page is editor ol Prepress maga
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What's on
Even though the CDTV has not been on
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titles available, ranging from Lemmings
to the Illustrated Holy Bible.
I have now had the chance to look at quite a
tew of the early releases on CDTV. some ol which
I've perused in greater detail than other*.
Although some of the titles are very impres-
sive, unfortunately most seem to have been
rushed for early release. But with the launch of a
new product like CDTV this is inevitable.
The first products I looked at were Lemmings
and the Hutchinsons Encyclopedia. These come
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Lemmings
Lemmings, from Psygnosis, is lun. ff you haven't
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button now pauses the lemmings so you can
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ruin the gameplay because the clock is still tick-
ing down in the comer.
The CDTV version of Lemmings comes with a
bonus animation for a possible future Psygnosis
game called Planetfall. It's a very long, ray traced
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A troupe ol Intrepid /oumo/««i morthing off to their
Inevitable end. A long drop otter a ihort carter
animation of a futuristic jet fighter flying over a
fractal landscape, chasing and finally destroying a
cruise missile.
If Psygnosis' claim - that they will have an
interactive game with graphics like this - is to be
believed, the CDTV will have some amazing soft-
ware for it by this time next year.
Hutchinsons Encyclopedia
The Hutchinsons Encyclopedia is, unfortunately,
pretty poor despite the fact that it no doubt
holds a lot of extremely interesting information,
with over 20,000 entries on subjects ranging
from Akfco to Zygote.
Browsing for entries is particularly awkward,
involving selecting each letter in turn from an A
to Z list at the bottom of the screen, much like
the method for entering high scores for games.
Once you have selected the first letters of the
Jolyon Ralph with the word on some
of the early CDTV releases
Captain Krrft i the year miuton contlnue\ through the 24-bit world at the Hartea-m from* butter
entry you are searching for, you get a list of pos-
sible entries at the top of the screen. For exam-
ple, entering "COMMOD" gives entries for
"Commodity" and "Commodus, Lucius Aelius", a
pretty unremarkable Roman Emperor. There is no
entry for Commodore, you will notice, and nei-
ther is there an entry for CDTV.
The main problem with Hutchinsons is that it
is dreadfully boring. There are a few still photos,
and snatches of digitized audio, but it still feeh
like it belongs in a reference library.
Multimedia is meant to make things lun, but II
hasn't worked for Hutchinsons. As a free disk it's
OK, but it's certainly not worth the £49.99 they
would have been selling it separately for.
24-bit art
Everybody seems to be talking about 24-bil
graphics nowadays. There has been an e«ptosion
of cards and add-on boxes providing all sorts gl
extra graphics modes for every Amiga and to surt
almost every pocket
Ranging from the £299 HAM-E to the £1,500
Harlequin board, these products have one pur-
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Amiga.
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Amiga 2000 and 3000. At the moment this only
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The Video Toaster also has a 24-bit-quality dis-
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owrTNgnt <f Commodore release the new super-
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graprncs burit-in to the Amiga chips.
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options from Commodore, and the success of the
- currency - NTSC-onry DCTV and Video Toaster
in the States, which do software developers
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tn the Stales most software that supports 24-
brt graphcs directly uses the DCTV box. HAM-E
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graph* modes allow most software that can dis-
play Iff images - like slideshow programs, Can-
Do, AmigaVision and even Amos - to display
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PHAZER GUN
The Trojan Main 9m opera* a
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Tha toVaictd light phaxer presents a challenge
of tkffl and accuracy lor auo st gaBMptiyca of al ages.
The peck mcJudo two free games, OrbtUl Destroyer and
Skeetshoot, -tech wfl test your 'hooting skills to the
extreme, nil full manual.
runted features of the Trojan Phazttr include:
* Opto-eiectronk circuitry to give oceiknt accuracy
* Plugs into the ST Joystick port - - .
* long (1-5 metre) lead J^IT "2?^
* Comfortable hand grip £39 95
AM 1 6 ADOS
A Dabhand Guide
is a comprehensive guide ir the
Amiga's Disc Operating Srm .'mot 12 ml
13). It provides a unique penpeom on Urn
powerful system in a w*y m%K% will b*
welcomed bv the beiinnei tv open use
alike.
Rather than simplv rtneratruj the Amiga
manual, this book take a gaseaaead* dattntnr
approach to understanding and using: the
Amiga and contains a wen of practical
hands-on advice, hints and i^n
The many features of this boo* include;
• Full coverage ot Amiga DOS 1.3
functions
• Filing with and without wurkbend)
0 The Amiga's hierarchical filing rotem
• Pathnames and Device names
• The Amiga's multitasking capabilities
• The AmlgaDOS screen editor
• AmlgaDOS commands
• Batch processing
1 Amiga Error code desmpbom
• How to create new systems dua
• Use of theRAMdrsa
• Using AmlgaDOS with C
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ProFliaht
ProFlight is the most realistic military flight
simulator for the home computer, based on the
Tornado fighter which has just seen front line
action in the Persian Gulf.
Feel the excitement of being at the seat of a jet
capable of climbing to 30,000 feet in less than two
minutes and test your skill at firing deadly missiles
during dog fights with enemy jets.
Unlike other programs, ProFlight doesn't forget its primary role as a
simulator and its secondary job of being a shoot-'em-up, made accurate by
using exact flight equations to mathematically model the flight of the aircraft
and its missiles.
You are tested at everything real pilots face each day but helped in your task
with a comprehensive manual
written by a Tornado expert.
To order, please use thi
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It's no secret that the Amiga is the most powerful home computer of them ail. What has
remained a mystery for most newcomers is how to make the most of its immense potential.
Now Amiga Computing has produced a floppy disk that is packed with everything
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Many months of research and testing have resulted in a
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This indispensable collection of utilities, including
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We ate sick to death of hearing people
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the shops down our way".
The reason some people can't find us is
because we sell out alarmingly quickly.
The sad fact is some newsagents don'i
carry enough copies of your favourite
Amiga magazine (boo hiss!).
Perhaps the easiest first course of
action would be to snip out the form on
this page and hand it to your newsagent.
If that doesn't work, send the tanks in!
Behind the scenes
There is nothing quite as occasional as a
Rock Lobster series. In this latest voyage
through the unknown we are taking
you, the humble Amiga owner, behind
the scenes of some of the most power-
ful institutions in the land.
We are starting oft with 17-bit
Software, those really nice guys who
gave their entire library away to one of
our readers last month. That prize is
going to take a lot of disk duplication
and these are the guys to do it! When
Two disk or
not to disk?
Our more observant readers will have
noticed three things, firstly, the Amiga
Computing logo looks violently ill this
month, secondly there Is only one pellet
of plastic sellotaped to the cover and
probably most importantly, we are a
meagre £2.99 again.
What did you think ol out double
disk issues? Da you think a usable demo
ol commercial software is worth the
extra 76p we charged?
Like the extra charge or not. it has
given us an idea for a competition.
What we want you to do is write down
ten things you can do with 76p. They
can be funny, clever, downright boring
even, but we are interested to know
how 76p would change your life.
Send your entries to 76p, Rock
Lobster 42, Amiga Computing, Europo
House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield,
SK10 4NP
You had best deduct 24p from the
76p In order to pay for a stamp. The
best entries will win a 'suitable' prize.
you are tucked up in bed reading Viz,
think of these guys pointing and click-
ing through the night.
Any other PD companies who want
to send in mug shots are more than
welcome to do so. We might even print
them.
Dear Mr & Mrs Newsagent
Please reserve me a copy of each
and every month. I would like to start with the
DECEMBER 1991 issue which you should have
for me on the first Thursday of November
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Nolei fe NewujcAf :
Amiga CambMitina. ii tiMitked by Earofreti Patlicatiw
and ii available on full SOR from lomaa,
il«a Camawtiaat if a brilliant maaaziae aid yom ikoald
ar an aitra lii and diattty than fall-face
e BUG.
The Birmingham User Croup (BUG)
really know how to have a good time!
Pictured here you see the BUG bigwigs
letting their hair down at a no holds
barred party to celebrate their tenth
birthday.
Happy birthday guys, and go easy
on the Vimlo!
Next month's
COMPUTING
The next action packed instalment
of AC will be in the shops on
Thursday 7 November, 1991. You
can't afford to miss it.
Now you too
ConDo!
Vup. it's a lair copl Many thanks to
everyone who wrote in to tell us there
was a problem with last month's
CanOo giveaway.
I won't bore you with loo many
details, but basically INOVAtronics,
the people who make CanDo, left a
couple of small but important files off
the disk.
Why didn't we notice I hear you
scream! Well, our tutorial was written
using a fully working version of CanDo.
Why? because we couldn't hang on
for the coverdisk master to arrive from
the States before we started putting
the magazine together.
Anyway, in true Amiga Computing
fashion we have put everything right
this month. In the utilities drawer of
this month's coverdisk you will find a
CanDo icon. Point and click to add the
missing files to your CanDo collection.
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KCS POWER PC BOARD
THE HIGHEST RATED PC EMULATOR FOR YOUR AMIGA
PLAY THE LATEST PC GAMES
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READ WHAT THE TOP AMIGA MAGS SAY
Germany's highest tkt Amiga mag - Amiga Wojoa, August 91 1, yog PC LAB found the KCS Board often faster than many 286 AT*. Thar overall test verdict "Sehr Gut (Very Good)"
Computer Shopper - "All the software I tried ran perfa.il> " . Amiga Shopper - "Stability 20/20 - Faultless operation in PC mode from day one - very beginner friendlv
Amiga Format - HaMer than many 286 ATs". Amiga Shopper - "Amazing screen update".
All - The PC Board is indeed a very highly compatible device - an essential Amiga hardware purchase*.
The KCS Board, although m name
XT. is so fast that we leave the last word to Amiga Computing - "What's the point in having a wizzo AT processor if its no faster"
(And the KCS Board does not invalidate your guarantee).
WHAT YOU GET
Memory: Amiga 5 1 2K Ram & 51 2K Ram Disk. PC 704Kb
( 1 5O0/2OOO/25OO73OOO) will use our on-board memory as I Mb memory expansion
Video Support: MGA. Hercules, CGA l6colour.
Imminent: EGA/VGA. and in colour allowing the program constant choice from
the hill 40% colour palette. This is a software upgrade available to all.
Disk Support: Hoppy 3 5", 5.25" up to 3 external hard drives - A590
XT/SCSIl/Supra 500 XP GVP senes and others, ring for information.
Mouse Support: Amiga mouse as Microsoft mouse.
MS- Dos: 4.01 i& manual) Shell (& manual) Dos-Help and GW-Basic. KCS
manual and of came our full helpline support.
HOW IT'S DONE
It's simple, no screwdriver, no soldering iron, no technical tacmledfe required. Just turn your Amiga over, open the cover,
slide the board mto Ike i nmm, ctae ihe cover and your Amiga PC is ready.
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY - COPIES OF LETTERS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
"Surpassed my expectations". 'Rivals the Compaq »e I
"May I take this chance to compliment ymmt
"Vox- atf»tr mm
■credible than I first thought". "The Amiga hasn't had a look in since I installed the board'
. 'Much faster and smoother than I expected - great value for money". "Superb service"
a standard that most companies have long forgotten".
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Compolibility is excellent bui no -one can guarantee every single program
available, ihcrclnrc it your purchase depend* on a particular program,
please aik in mm or tend in a copy of the program. (With suitable SAIL
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NEWS T6§
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Vidi ... No 1 in UK & Europe (Leading the way forward)
£179
"The Complete Colour Solution"
The Worlds ultimate creative leisure product for your
Amiga. Capture dynamic high resolution images into
your Amiga in less than one second.
And Look No Filters
Images can now be grabbed from either colour
video camera, home VCR or in (act any still video
source. The traditional method of holding three
colour filters in front of your video camera is certainly
a thing of the past. Because Vidi splits the RGB
colours electronically there are no focussing or
movement problems experienced by some ot our
slower competitors. Lighting is also less of an issue
as light is not being shul out by lens filters Put all
this together with an already proven Vidi-
Amiga/VidiChrome combination and achieve what
is probably the most consistant and accurate high
quality 4096 colour images ever seen on the Amiga.
The colour solution is fully compatible with all
Amiga's from a standard A500 to the ultimate A3000.
No additional RAM is required to get up and running.
You will see from independant review
comments that we are undoubtedly their first choice
and that was before the complete solution was
launched. If you have just purchased your Amiga
and are not sure what to buy next, then just read
the comments or send for full review and demo disk
Features ..
Grab mono images Irom any video
source
Capture colour images from any still
video source.
Digitise up lo 16 mono frames on a
1 meg Amiga.
Animate 16 shade Images at different
speeds
Create windows in both mono & colour-
Cut & Paste areas from one Irame to
another.
Hardware and softwaie brightness &
contrast control
Choice ol capture resolutions standard
A Dynamic interlace
Full Palelte control.
Add text or draw within art package
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